Paring/cutting benign hyperkeratotic lesion single 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

$305.40

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.

$509.00

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.

$22.00 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $468.28 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 $22.00 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $22.00 ↓ -93%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $26.00 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $29.66 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $31.13 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $31.65 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $34.08 ↓ -89%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $42.29 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $69.92 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $177.30 ↓ -42%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $183.24 ↓ -40%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $194.33 ↓ -36%
Aetna EBR FI $198.51 ↓ -35%
Aetna of PA Medicare $198.91 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $199.53 ↓ -35%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $202.28 ↓ -34%
Cigna New Business ASO $203.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $203.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $203.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $203.60 ↓ -33%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $204.58 ↓ -33%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $204.60 ↓ -33%
United Healthcare Medicare $204.60 ↓ -33%
Aetna Medicare $208.38 ↓ -32%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $234.53 ↓ -23%
InterGroup PPO $254.50 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $260.35 ↓ -15%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $270.89 ↓ -11%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $314.09 ↑ +3%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $356.30 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $406.34 ↑ +33%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $407.20 ↑ +33%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $420.50 ↑ +38%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $432.65 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $432.65 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $468.28 ↑ +53%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Paring/cutting benign hyperkeratotic lesion single at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $197.40 $22.00 – $208.38
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $347.40 $22.00 – $208.38
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $251.40 $22.00 – $931.20
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $325.80 $22.00 – $208.38
UPMC Altoona Altoona $453.00 $20.00 – $604.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $337.20 $21.00 – $505.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $288.60 $25.40 – $1,016.56
UPMC Cole Coudersport $150.60 $8.59 – $2,094.25

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