Pvb thoracic single inj site at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$565.80
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.
$943.00
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.
$77.09 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,069.99 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $77.09 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $77.09 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $91.10 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $102.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $103.93 | ↓ -82% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $109.09 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $110.89 | ↓ -80% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $119.43 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $194.27 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $296.26 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $339.48 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $343.49 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $367.77 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $369.66 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $377.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $377.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $377.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $377.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $396.74 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $460.00 | ↓ -19% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $471.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $595.11 | ↑ +5% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $617.91 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $660.10 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $677.26 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $693.24 | ↑ +23% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $712.98 | ↑ +26% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $713.05 | ↑ +26% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $713.05 | ↑ +26% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $726.25 | ↑ +28% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $754.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $801.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $801.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $867.56 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $971.42 | ↑ +72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,069.99 | ↑ +89% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Pvb thoracic single inj site at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,406.00 | $77.09 – $726.25 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,976.60 | $77.09 – $726.25 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,419.00 | $77.09 – $931.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $490.80 | $77.09 – $726.25 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,633.00 | $70.08 – $4,844.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $136.20 | $62.92 – $771.51 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $523.20 | $77.09 – $697.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $550.20 | $77.09 – $960.26 |