Small bowel endoscopy at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$4,736.40
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.
$7,894.00
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.
$149.01 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $6,851.24 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $149.01 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $149.01 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $176.10 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $200.89 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $210.87 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $214.35 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $230.85 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $662.90 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $736.75 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,434.76 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,692.62 | ↓ -64% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,855.21 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,898.98 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,953.05 | ↓ -59% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,989.40 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,131.49 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,317.34 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,471.31 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,680.92 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,854.47 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,904.33 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,919.22 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,978.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,978.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,978.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,978.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,309.63 | ↓ -30% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,723.50 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,281.72 | ↓ -10% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $5,212.90 | ↑ +10% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $5,957.60 | ↑ +26% |
| Humana | Commercial | $6,329.95 | ↑ +34% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $6,329.95 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $6,851.24 | ↑ +45% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Small bowel endoscopy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,843.20 | $149.01 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,451.00 | $149.01 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,330.80 | $149.01 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,047.00 | $149.01 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,598.80 | $135.46 – $4,798.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $438.60 | $142.23 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,055.20 | $149.01 – $4,073.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,124.80 | $149.01 – $2,630.42 |