Radiation treatment aid(s) at UPMC Magee

300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$1,785.00

Cash price

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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.

$2,975.00

Gross charge

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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.

$100.65 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,737.00 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $100.65 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $100.65 ↓ -94%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $118.95 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $135.69 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $142.44 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $144.79 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $155.93 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $216.51 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $326.63 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $358.00 ↓ -80%
Aetna of PA Medicare $366.45 ↓ -79%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $376.89 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $376.92 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $376.92 ↓ -79%
Aetna Medicare $383.90 ↓ -78%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $465.68 ↓ -74%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $533.14 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $626.39 ↓ -65%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $668.81 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $726.25 ↓ -59%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $838.85 ↓ -53%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $972.61 ↓ -46%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1,071.00 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $1,160.25 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $1,166.20 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $1,190.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $1,190.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $1,190.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $1,190.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $1,258.28 ↓ -30%
InterGroup PPO $1,487.50 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $2,082.50 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $2,380.00 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $2,528.75 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $2,528.75 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $2,737.00 ↑ +53%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Radiation treatment aid(s) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $1,696.20 $100.65 – $473.15
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1,772.40 $100.65 – $541.49
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $2,539.20 $100.65 – $465.68
UPMC Altoona Altoona $997.20 $55.00 – $1,329.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $715.80 $72.05 – $1,014.05
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $715.80 $72.05 – $1,014.05
UPMC East Monroeville $930.00 $100.65 – $1,240.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $846.00 $100.65 – $434.32

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