Plcmnt ureteral stent pq w/img exstng trct at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$12,594.00
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.
$20,990.00
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.
$714.38 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $19,310.80 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $714.38 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,355.34 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,180.19 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,396.28 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,919.74 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $3,077.41 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,209.15 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $3,373.02 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,452.59 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,550.91 | ↓ -72% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,551.23 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,551.23 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,617.00 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $3,778.20 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,379.61 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $7,346.50 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $7,556.40 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $8,186.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $8,228.08 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $8,396.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $8,396.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $8,396.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $8,396.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $9,130.65 | ↓ -28% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $10,495.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $11,544.50 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $11,544.50 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $14,693.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $16,792.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $17,841.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $17,841.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $19,310.80 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Plcmnt ureteral stent pq w/img exstng trct at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,913.40 | $707.65 – $3,617.00 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,913.40 | $714.38 – $3,617.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $6,505.80 | $714.38 – $3,617.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,913.40 | $714.38 – $3,617.00 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $4,641.60 | $707.65 – $6,188.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $7,729.80 | $1,016.56 – $10,950.55 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $7,729.80 | $1,016.56 – $10,950.55 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $4,879.80 | $714.38 – $6,506.40 |