Mayo cocou cortisone urine at UPMC Magee

300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$298.20

Cash price

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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.

$497.00

Gross charge

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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.

$21.20 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $217.40 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $21.20 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $21.20 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $22.55 ↓ -92%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $23.80 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $24.71 ↓ -92%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $25.05 ↓ -92%
Aetna of PA Medicare $25.29 ↓ -92%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $26.01 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare $26.02 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $26.02 ↓ -91%
Aetna Medicare $26.50 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $28.58 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $30.00 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $30.49 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $32.84 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $43.13 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $48.39 ↓ -84%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $59.40 ↓ -80%
Aetna EBR FI $64.35 ↓ -78%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $64.68 ↓ -78%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $66.00 ↓ -78%
Aetna EBR ASO $66.00 ↓ -78%
Cigna Commercial $66.00 ↓ -78%
Cigna New Business ASO $66.00 ↓ -78%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $76.93 ↓ -74%
InterGroup PPO $82.50 ↓ -72%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $103.03 ↓ -65%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $115.50 ↓ -61%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $132.00 ↓ -56%
Humana Commercial $140.25 ↓ -53%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $140.25 ↓ -53%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $148.18 ↓ -50%
Multiplan PPO $151.80 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $154.54 ↓ -48%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $162.33 ↓ -46%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $217.40 ↓ -27%

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UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $168.00 $20.08 – $47.94
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $711.60 $21.20 – $48.39
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