Removal central venous catheter tunneled without port/pump at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,890.60
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.
$3,151.00
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.
$319.83 with UPMC Work Partners vs $3,428.58 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $319.83 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $551.66 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $567.18 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $589.95 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $604.65 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $618.91 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $636.54 | ↓ -66% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $636.60 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $636.60 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $646.63 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $648.38 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,044.40 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,134.36 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,228.89 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,235.19 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,260.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,260.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,260.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,260.40 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,575.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,706.79 | ↓ -10% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,733.05 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,733.05 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,978.90 | ↑ +5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,205.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,285.71 | ↑ +21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,520.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,650.18 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,678.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,678.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $2,898.92 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,428.58 | ↑ +81% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Removal central venous catheter tunneled without port/pump at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,671.00 | $359.76 – $648.38 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,171.60 | $319.83 – $648.38 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,475.80 | $359.76 – $931.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,011.80 | $319.83 – $648.38 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,267.20 | $319.83 – $1,689.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $3,457.20 | $325.29 – $4,897.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $194.40 | $39.36 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3,457.20 | $161.00 – $1,044.40 |