Sclerotherapy fluid collection pq w/img at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$2,901.00
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.
$4,835.00
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.
$667.92 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $4,448.20 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 | $667.92 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $870.30 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,267.18 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,445.68 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,584.55 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,621.93 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,668.12 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,668.28 | ↓ -42% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,668.28 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,692.25 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,699.17 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,740.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,885.65 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,895.32 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,932.36 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,934.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,934.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,934.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,934.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,103.22 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,240.43 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,417.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,587.79 | ↓ -11% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,659.25 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,659.25 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,000.43 | ↑ +3% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,384.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $3,868.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,881.70 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,109.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,109.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $4,448.20 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Sclerotherapy fluid collection pq w/img at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,754.60 | $661.62 – $1,699.17 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,621.00 | $667.92 – $1,699.17 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $18,498.60 | $667.92 – $1,706.02 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,643.60 | $603.62 – $3,745.10 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,643.60 | $881.20 – $3,745.10 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,801.60 | $661.62 – $2,246.66 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,643.60 | $1,198.30 – $2,476.51 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $2,643.60 | $1,198.30 – $2,489.89 |