Obstetrics panel 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

$857.40

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.

$1,429.00

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.

$13.20 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,314.68 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.

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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 $13.20 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $13.20 ↓ -98%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $15.60 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $17.80 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $18.68 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $18.99 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $20.45 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $28.12 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $36.76 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $44.75 ↓ -95%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $47.26 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $49.04 ↓ -94%
Aetna of PA Medicare $50.20 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $51.63 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare $51.63 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $51.63 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare $52.59 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $58.43 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $78.26 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $96.60 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $117.39 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $123.31 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $165.14 ↓ -81%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $514.44 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $557.31 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $560.17 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $571.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $571.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $571.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $571.60 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $714.50 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1,000.30 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $1,143.20 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $1,214.65 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,214.65 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $1,314.68 ↑ +53%

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Obstetrics panel at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $320.40 $13.20 – $52.59
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $424.80 $13.20 – $54.95
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $896.40 $12.00 – $54.95
UPMC Altoona Altoona $266.40 $12.00 – $355.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $166.20 $12.00 – $249.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $310.80 $12.00 – $440.30
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $310.80 $12.00 – $440.30
UPMC East Monroeville $144.60 $12.00 – $192.80

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