Surgical trays at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$72.00
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.
$120.00
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.
$14.76 with Aetna vs $110.40 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 |
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| Aetna | Medicare | $14.76 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $21.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $43.20 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $46.80 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $47.04 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $48.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $48.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $48.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $48.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $57.40 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $60.00 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $60.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $66.00 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $66.00 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $83.84 | ↑ +16% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $84.00 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $88.67 | ↑ +23% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $96.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $102.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $102.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $110.40 | ↑ +53% |
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Surgical trays at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $72.00 | $83.29 – $97.49 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $674.40 | $83.84 – $97.49 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $294.60 | $70.43 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $80.40 | $57.40 – $107.20 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $350.40 | $57.40 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $393.60 | $13.42 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $70.80 | $42.27 – $92.62 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $36.60 | $83.84 – $92.62 |