Pulmonary vent imaging at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$795.60
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.
$1,326.00
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.
$141.88 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,219.92 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $141.88 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $141.88 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $167.67 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $177.99 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $191.28 | ↓ -76% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $200.78 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $204.10 | ↓ -74% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $219.81 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $237.70 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $358.54 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $387.39 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $392.98 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $402.25 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $413.71 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $413.75 | ↓ -48% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $413.75 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $421.41 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $477.36 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $485.97 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $514.93 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $517.14 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $519.79 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $530.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $530.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $530.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $530.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $597.02 | ↓ -25% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $663.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $689.59 | ↓ -13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $799.55 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $928.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,034.39 | ↑ +30% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,060.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,127.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,127.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,219.92 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Pulmonary vent imaging at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $705.60 | $141.88 – $421.41 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $748.80 | $141.88 – $421.41 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,059.00 | $132.89 – $421.41 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $672.00 | $141.88 – $421.41 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $507.60 | $110.74 – $676.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $879.00 | $135.43 – $1,318.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,228.80 | $145.07 – $1,740.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $642.00 | $135.43 – $856.00 |