Thyroid met uptake at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$213.60
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.
$356.00
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.
$33.13 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $327.52 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $33.13 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $33.13 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $39.16 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $44.67 | ↓ -79% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $46.89 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $47.66 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $51.33 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $55.66 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $62.13 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $76.25 | ↓ -64% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $94.99 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $119.17 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $128.16 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $138.84 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $139.55 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $142.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $142.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $142.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $142.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $161.02 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $178.00 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $178.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $186.69 | ↓ -13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $215.64 | ↑ +1% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $249.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $250.02 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $284.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $302.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $302.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $323.46 | ↑ +51% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $327.52 | ↑ +53% |
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Thyroid met uptake at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $288.60 | $33.13 – $72.24 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,370.00 | $21.68 – $80.68 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $407.40 | $23.67 – $577.15 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $407.40 | $23.67 – $577.15 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $407.40 | $23.67 – $65.02 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $407.40 | $23.67 – $69.32 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $407.40 | $23.67 – $369.38 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $407.40 | $20.78 – $62.13 |