Kit sound processor cochlear osia 2 at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$8,362.80
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$13,938.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$1,094.50 with Aetna vs $28,833.79 with Highmark BCBS of PA — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Aetna | Medicare | $1,094.50 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1,698.84 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $2,170.74 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3,114.54 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,397.68 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3,530.95 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,680.82 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,699.70 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,775.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,775.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,775.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,775.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $4,219.76 | ↓ -50% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,719.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4,719.00 | ↓ -44% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $5,190.90 | ↓ -38% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $6,606.60 | ↓ -21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $7,550.40 | ↓ -10% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $8,022.30 | ↓ -4% |
| Humana | Commercial | $8,022.30 | ↓ -4% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $8,682.96 | ↑ +4% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $12,579.56 | ↑ +50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $14,154.47 | ↑ +69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $14,352.81 | ↑ +72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $18,955.98 | ↑ +127% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $19,222.45 | ↑ +130% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $19,433.40 | ↑ +132% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $28,833.79 | ↑ +245% |
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Kit sound processor cochlear osia 2 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $27,822.00 | $3,530.95 – $9,933.36 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $8,362.80 | $3,530.95 – $18,254.51 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $38,541.00 | $1,200.00 – $20,338.90 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $5,662.80 | $3,530.95 – $4,179.96 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $5,556.60 | $1,280.00 – $3,777.29 |