MRI chest w IV cont at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,558.20
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.
$2,597.00
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.
$431.72 with UPMC Health Plan vs $6,553.40 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 Medicaid | $431.72 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $431.72 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $510.21 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $546.21 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $582.03 | ↓ -63% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $610.96 | ↓ -61% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $621.04 | ↓ -60% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $668.85 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $704.95 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $772.66 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $790.89 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $813.41 | ↓ -48% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $813.49 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $813.49 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $828.55 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $934.92 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,012.83 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,018.02 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,038.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,038.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,038.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,038.80 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,125.45 | ↓ -28% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $1,231.00 | ↓ -21% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,298.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,580.24 | ↑ +1% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,817.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,832.17 | ↑ +18% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,907.62 | ↑ +22% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,077.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,116.24 | ↑ +36% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,207.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,207.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $2,389.24 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,453.69 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,174.37 | ↑ +104% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $6,553.40 | ↑ +321% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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MRI chest w IV cont at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $5,313.60 | $431.72 – $1,323.33 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,836.80 | $431.72 – $1,308.66 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,004.00 | $374.64 – $1,538.75 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $3,264.60 | $431.72 – $1,125.45 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,329.40 | $312.20 – $4,439.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $4,837.20 | $408.98 – $6,852.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,421.40 | $412.09 – $1,895.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $4,837.20 | $408.98 – $6,852.70 |