Sigmoidoscopy w/tumr remove at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$628.80
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.
$1,048.00
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.
$134.15 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 | $134.15 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $134.15 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $158.53 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $180.85 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $189.84 | ↓ -70% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $192.97 | ↓ -69% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $207.83 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $377.28 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $408.72 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $410.82 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $419.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $419.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $419.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $419.20 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $423.02 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $524.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $550.23 | ↓ -12% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $733.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $838.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $890.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $890.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $964.16 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,052.05 | ↑ +67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,071.43 | ↑ +70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,153.11 | ↑ +83% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,180.32 | ↑ +88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,213.93 | ↑ +93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,214.04 | ↑ +93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,214.04 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,236.52 | ↑ +97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,591.86 | ↑ +153% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,730.51 | ↑ +175% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,845.64 | ↑ +194% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,131.80 | ↑ +239% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,471.73 | ↑ +293% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,197.71 | ↑ +409% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Sigmoidoscopy w/tumr remove at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,366.20 | $134.15 – $1,236.52 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,727.40 | $134.15 – $1,236.52 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,235.80 | $134.15 – $1,236.52 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,885.20 | $134.15 – $1,236.52 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,459.20 | $121.95 – $1,945.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $3,209.40 | $128.05 – $4,814.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $396.60 | $128.05 – $771.51 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,281.20 | $134.15 – $3,041.60 |