St evaluation motion fluoroscopic swallow function cine/video at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$696.00
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.
$1,160.00
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.
$46.55 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,380.95 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $46.55 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $46.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $55.02 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $62.76 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $65.88 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $66.97 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $72.12 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $82.12 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $96.81 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $175.34 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $225.26 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $270.87 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $417.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $452.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $454.72 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $464.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $464.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $464.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $464.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $580.00 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $580.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $687.45 | ↓ -1% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $755.58 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $812.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $920.63 | ↑ +32% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $928.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $986.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $986.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,011.89 | ↑ +45% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,067.20 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,380.95 | ↑ +98% |
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St evaluation motion fluoroscopic swallow function cine/video at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $543.00 | $46.55 – $223.13 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $638.40 | $46.55 – $225.26 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $827.40 | $46.55 – $225.26 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $490.80 | $46.55 – $225.26 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $373.80 | $42.32 – $498.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $558.60 | $44.44 – $837.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $263.40 | $53.75 – $591.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $418.80 | $44.44 – $558.40 |