Mnt subs tx for change dx at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$24.60
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.
$41.00
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.
$6.66 with Aetna vs $80.18 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 | CHIP/Medicaid | $6.66 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $13.08 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $13.32 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $14.43 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $14.50 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $14.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $14.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $14.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $14.80 | ↓ -40% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $18.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $18.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $20.35 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $20.35 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $25.90 | ↑ +5% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $29.60 | ↑ +20% |
| Humana | Commercial | $31.45 | ↑ +28% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $31.45 | ↑ +28% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $34.04 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $36.34 | ↑ +48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $37.97 | ↑ +54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $39.92 | ↑ +62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $43.87 | ↑ +78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $53.46 | ↑ +117% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $58.65 | ↑ +138% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $58.75 | ↑ +139% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $80.18 | ↑ +226% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Mnt subs tx for change dx at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $24.60 | $13.08 – $55.10 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $19.80 | $12.96 – $37.97 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $59.40 | $13.56 – $115.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $59.40 | $19.80 – $84.15 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $59.40 | $21.93 – $115.00 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $59.40 | $21.93 – $115.00 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $59.40 | $10.56 – $115.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $59.40 | $12.82 – $22.74 |