MRI upper extremity w/dye at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$2,251.20
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.
$3,752.00
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.
$318.66 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,451.84 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 | $318.66 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $349.26 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $357.50 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $367.68 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $367.72 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $374.53 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $544.90 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $550.71 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $675.36 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,109.81 | ↓ -51% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $1,213.54 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,350.72 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,463.28 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,470.78 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,500.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,500.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,500.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,500.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,576.44 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,827.77 | ↓ -19% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,876.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,891.90 | ↓ -16% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,063.60 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,063.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,111.15 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,447.79 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,626.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $3,001.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,166.74 | ↑ +41% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,189.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,189.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $3,451.84 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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MRI upper extremity w/dye at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $5,313.60 | $283.82 – $1,304.55 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,621.20 | $316.41 – $1,290.48 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,004.00 | $367.72 – $1,516.92 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,742.40 | $293.97 – $1,109.81 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,699.20 | $425.00 – $2,265.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,713.80 | $403.15 – $3,844.55 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,384.20 | $399.40 – $1,845.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,713.80 | $403.15 – $3,844.55 |