Tc-99m sestamibi p study dose at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$745.80
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.
$1,243.00
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.
$119.78 with Aetna vs $1,560.46 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 | Medicare | $119.78 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $223.74 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $228.37 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $447.48 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $484.77 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $487.26 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $497.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $497.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $497.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $497.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $621.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $621.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $668.53 | ↓ -10% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $683.65 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $683.65 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $766.03 | ↑ +3% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $776.76 | ↑ +4% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $870.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $994.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,025.88 | ↑ +38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,032.77 | ↑ +38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,040.30 | ↑ +39% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,056.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,056.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,143.56 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,560.46 | ↑ +109% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Tc-99m sestamibi p study dose at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $640.80 | $226.22 – $527.90 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $878.40 | $228.37 – $970.12 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,674.80 | $228.37 – $1,080.89 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,276.20 | $228.37 – $820.33 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $446.40 | $226.22 – $1,351.74 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $652.80 | $272.00 – $979.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $201.00 | $45.90 – $284.75 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $528.00 | $243.94 – $704.00 |