Microdissection manual at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,101.00
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.
$1,835.00
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.
$69.46 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,223.81 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $69.46 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $179.85 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $185.58 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $238.62 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $272.43 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $321.35 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $371.16 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $402.09 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $404.15 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $412.40 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $412.40 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $412.40 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $412.40 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $433.04 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $515.50 | ↓ -53% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $515.50 | ↓ -53% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $567.05 | ↓ -48% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $567.05 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $579.97 | ↓ -47% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $721.70 | ↓ -34% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $824.80 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $869.95 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Commercial | $876.35 | ↓ -20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $876.35 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $913.82 | ↓ -17% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $948.52 | ↓ -14% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,223.81 | ↑ +11% |
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Microdissection manual at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $715.80 | $65.83 – $377.02 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,179.00 | $66.22 – $373.66 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $505.80 | $69.87 – $438.39 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $538.20 | $66.38 – $321.35 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,058.40 | $238.62 – $1,411.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $604.20 | $66.54 – $906.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $284.40 | $64.94 – $408.16 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $497.40 | $53.00 – $663.20 |