Radiation therapy dose plan at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$633.60
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.
$1,056.00
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.
$40.15 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $971.52 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $40.15 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $40.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $47.45 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $54.13 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $56.82 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $57.76 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $62.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $96.66 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $118.47 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $129.85 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $132.91 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $136.69 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $136.71 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $136.71 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $139.24 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $207.79 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $247.39 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $279.64 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $310.35 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $324.22 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $374.49 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $380.16 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $411.84 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $413.95 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $422.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $422.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $422.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $422.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $434.21 | ↓ -31% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $528.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $561.74 | ↓ -11% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $739.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $844.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $897.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $897.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $971.52 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Radiation therapy dose plan at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $790.80 | $40.15 – $211.05 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $595.80 | $40.15 – $241.62 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $847.20 | $40.15 – $207.79 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $411.60 | $21.50 – $548.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $546.60 | $28.16 – $774.35 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $546.60 | $28.16 – $774.35 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $415.80 | $40.15 – $554.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $425.40 | $40.15 – $194.03 |