Spinal puncture lumbar diagnostic w/fluoroscopic or CT guidance at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,357.80
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.
$2,263.00
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.
$80.72 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,081.96 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $80.72 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $80.72 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $95.39 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $108.82 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $114.23 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $116.12 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $125.05 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $143.76 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $307.62 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $415.91 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $482.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $556.98 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $617.91 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $645.79 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $677.26 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $693.24 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $712.98 | ↓ -47% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $713.05 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $713.05 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $726.25 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $814.68 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $835.47 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $882.57 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $887.10 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $905.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $905.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $905.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $905.20 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,131.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,584.10 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,726.00 | ↑ +27% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,810.40 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,901.14 | ↑ +40% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,923.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,923.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $2,081.96 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Spinal puncture lumbar diagnostic w/fluoroscopic or CT guidance at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,439.40 | $80.72 – $726.25 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,525.80 | $80.72 – $726.25 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,918.80 | $80.72 – $931.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,439.40 | $80.72 – $726.25 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,360.20 | $73.38 – $1,813.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,461.20 | $93.19 – $3,486.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $126.00 | $58.21 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,461.20 | $93.19 – $3,486.70 |