Sterile gauze <= 16 sq in at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$12.00
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.
$20.00
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.
$0.11 with Aetna vs $18.40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $0.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $0.23 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $0.29 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.67 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $0.76 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $0.77 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1.01 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1.03 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1.04 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $3.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $7.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $7.80 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $7.84 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $8.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $8.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $8.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $8.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $10.00 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $10.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $11.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $11.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $14.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $16.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $17.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $17.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $18.40 | ↑ +53% |
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Sterile gauze <= 16 sq in at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $0.60 | $0.23 – $0.98 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2.40 | $0.14 – $1.09 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1.20 | $0.22 – $0.29 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $0.60 | $0.29 – $0.81 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $0.60 | $0.29 – $0.67 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $8.40 | $0.29 – $0.65 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1.80 | $0.15 – $0.29 |