Plethysmography lung volumes/airway resistance at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$110.40
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.
$184.00
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.
$34.68 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $344.57 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | $34.68 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $44.07 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $44.07 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $52.08 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $59.41 | ↓ -46% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $62.36 | ↓ -44% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $63.39 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $66.24 | ↓ -40% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $68.27 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $71.76 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $72.13 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $73.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $73.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $73.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $73.60 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $73.86 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $92.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $105.83 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $116.32 | ↑ +5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $128.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $141.73 | ↑ +28% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $147.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $155.78 | ↑ +41% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $156.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $156.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $169.28 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $212.60 | ↑ +93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $223.05 | ↑ +102% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $277.85 | ↑ +152% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $304.54 | ↑ +176% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $311.72 | ↑ +182% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $320.60 | ↑ +190% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $320.63 | ↑ +190% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $320.63 | ↑ +190% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $326.57 | ↑ +196% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $344.57 | ↑ +212% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Plethysmography lung volumes/airway resistance at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $630.00 | $34.35 – $326.57 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $464.40 | $34.68 – $326.57 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $727.80 | $34.68 – $326.57 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $479.40 | $34.68 – $326.57 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $153.60 | $30.44 – $204.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $762.60 | $39.88 – $1,080.35 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $121.80 | $11.64 – $73.86 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $762.60 | $39.88 – $327.76 |