Pet fdg brain metoblic eval sb at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$7,773.00
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.
$12,955.00
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.
$751.40 with UPMC Health Plan vs $14,256.43 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $751.40 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $751.40 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $888.02 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $1,013.02 | ↓ -87% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,063.37 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1,080.92 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,164.12 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,301.45 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,426.47 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,460.12 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,501.70 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,501.84 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,501.84 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,529.65 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $2,453.09 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,761.28 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $4,663.80 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $4,718.45 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $5,052.45 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $5,078.36 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $5,182.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $5,182.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $5,182.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5,182.00 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $6,477.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $7,097.04 | ↓ -9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $8,228.48 | ↑ +6% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $9,068.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $9,504.25 | ↑ +22% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $10,364.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $11,011.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $11,011.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $11,019.76 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $11,918.60 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $14,256.43 | ↑ +83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Pet fdg brain metoblic eval sb at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $13,297.20 | $751.40 – $2,453.09 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $13,366.80 | $735.92 – $2,453.09 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $4,077.60 | $613.27 – $5,436.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $5,639.40 | $800.00 – $7,989.15 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $6,180.00 | $717.24 – $8,240.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $5,639.40 | $803.38 – $10,683.53 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $5,639.40 | $800.00 – $7,584.17 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $4,480.80 | $751.40 – $5,997.30 |