Place gastrostomy tube perc at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$4,381.20
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.
$7,302.00
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.
$194.19 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $11,233.10 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $194.19 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $194.19 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $229.50 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $261.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $274.82 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $279.36 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $300.86 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $564.53 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $911.79 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,670.96 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,692.62 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,855.21 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,898.98 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,932.87 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,953.05 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↓ -55% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,989.40 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,628.72 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,847.78 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,862.38 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,920.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,920.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,920.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,920.80 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,651.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $5,111.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $5,591.98 | ↑ +28% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $5,841.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $6,206.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $6,206.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $6,483.48 | ↑ +48% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $6,717.84 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $7,488.70 | ↑ +71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $8,682.83 | ↑ +98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $11,233.10 | ↑ +156% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,587.40 | $194.19 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,101.00 | $194.19 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $6,954.00 | $194.19 – $2,305.18 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $3,809.40 | $194.19 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $4,149.00 | $176.54 – $5,532.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $7,713.60 | $224.21 – $10,927.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $7,713.60 | $238.33 – $10,927.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $8,014.80 | $194.19 – $10,686.40 |