Radiotherapy dose plan imrt at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$10,898.40
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.
$18,164.00
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.
$1,146.43 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $16,710.88 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,146.43 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $1,188.45 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1,188.45 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,220.85 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,338.13 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,369.69 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1,404.53 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,408.70 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,408.83 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,408.83 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,415.31 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,434.92 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $1,602.25 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,681.87 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1,709.64 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,775.48 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,841.23 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,623.22 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,316.73 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,845.50 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,441.72 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $5,149.98 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $6,539.04 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $6,662.61 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $7,083.96 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $7,120.29 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $7,265.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $7,265.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $7,265.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $7,265.60 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $9,082.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $12,714.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $14,531.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $15,439.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $15,439.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $16,710.88 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Radiotherapy dose plan imrt at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $12,731.40 | $914.88 – $3,050.25 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $11,392.80 | $849.40 – $3,551.58 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $13,858.20 | $841.74 – $2,623.22 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,990.60 | $707.83 – $5,320.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $3,873.00 | $884.34 – $5,486.75 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3,873.00 | $927.26 – $5,486.75 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $4,927.80 | $832.41 – $6,570.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,987.40 | $1,120.61 – $2,623.22 |