Speech and Language Evaluation (comprehensive) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$348.60
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.
$581.00
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.
$104.58 with Aetna vs $695.52 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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| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $104.58 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $138.75 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $209.16 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $223.04 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $226.59 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $227.75 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $232.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $232.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $232.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $232.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $261.75 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $290.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $290.50 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $319.55 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $319.55 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $346.22 | ↓ -1% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $406.70 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $444.58 | ↑ +28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $463.68 | ↑ +33% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $464.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $465.41 | ↑ +34% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $493.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $493.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $534.52 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $623.28 | ↑ +79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $686.81 | ↑ +97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $695.52 | ↑ +100% |
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Speech and Language Evaluation (comprehensive) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $228.60 | $137.44 – $351.06 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $429.60 | $138.75 – $645.15 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $393.00 | $138.75 – $718.81 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $239.40 | $138.75 – $545.54 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $262.20 | $137.44 – $444.58 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $820.20 | $261.75 – $1,230.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $865.20 | $195.27 – $1,225.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $444.00 | $152.00 – $592.00 |