Sigmoidoscopy/submucosal injection 45335 at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$2,232.00
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.
$3,720.00
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.
$86.52 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,439.16 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 | $86.52 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $86.52 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $102.25 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $116.64 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $122.43 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $124.46 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $134.04 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $264.33 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $591.77 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $813.49 | ↓ -64% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $891.64 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $912.67 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $938.66 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $938.75 | ↓ -58% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $938.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $956.13 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,025.81 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,339.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,450.80 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,458.24 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,488.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,488.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,488.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,488.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,656.82 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,712.06 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,860.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,985.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,292.76 | ↑ +3% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,604.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,658.36 | ↑ +19% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,976.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,162.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,162.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $3,422.40 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,439.16 | ↑ +54% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Sigmoidoscopy/submucosal injection 45335 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,374.60 | $86.52 – $956.13 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,315.20 | $86.52 – $956.13 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,480.00 | $86.52 – $956.13 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,235.60 | $86.52 – $956.13 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,459.20 | $78.65 – $1,945.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $4,209.00 | $82.58 – $6,313.50 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $180.60 | $82.58 – $771.51 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,976.60 | $86.52 – $3,968.80 |