Magnetic image bone marrow at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$2,211.60
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.
$3,686.00
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.
$215.68 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,391.12 with Multiplan — 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $215.68 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $236.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $241.97 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $248.86 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $248.89 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $248.89 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $253.50 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $286.45 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $286.45 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $338.53 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $386.19 | ↓ -83% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $405.38 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $412.07 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $443.79 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $471.68 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $787.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $894.51 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,290.10 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,326.96 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,364.61 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,437.54 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,444.91 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,474.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,474.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,474.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,474.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,582.16 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,603.41 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,827.46 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,843.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,118.86 | ↓ -4% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,580.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,741.21 | ↑ +24% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,948.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,133.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,133.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $3,391.12 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Magnetic image bone marrow at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,412.60 | $214.16 – $915.36 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,581.40 | $241.31 – $1,118.14 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,656.00 | $228.92 – $2,346.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,656.00 | $235.40 – $2,346.00 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,656.00 | $228.61 – $823.82 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $1,557.00 | $286.45 – $941.41 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,656.00 | $229.84 – $823.82 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,656.00 | $241.76 – $2,119.85 |