Sigmoid/rmv tumor/polyp/hot bx for 45333 at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,664.40
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.
$2,774.00
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.
$104.10 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,197.71 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 Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $104.10 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $104.10 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $123.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $140.35 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $147.33 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $149.76 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $161.29 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $423.02 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $550.23 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $813.49 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $891.64 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $912.67 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $938.66 | ↓ -44% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $938.75 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $938.75 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $956.13 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $998.64 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,060.89 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,081.86 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,087.41 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,109.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,109.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,109.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,109.60 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,387.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,591.86 | ↓ -4% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,713.49 | ↑ +3% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,845.64 | ↑ +11% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,941.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,131.80 | ↑ +28% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,219.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,357.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,357.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,471.73 | ↑ +49% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $2,552.08 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,197.71 | ↑ +92% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Sigmoid/rmv tumor/polyp/hot bx for 45333 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,356.00 | $104.10 – $956.13 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,764.00 | $104.10 – $956.13 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,596.40 | $104.10 – $956.13 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,885.20 | $104.10 – $956.13 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,459.20 | $94.64 – $1,945.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $3,232.80 | $99.37 – $4,849.20 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $2,561.40 | $104.10 – $956.13 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $3,816.80 | $104.10 – $993.28 |