Transparent film >16<=48 in at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$33.00
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.
$55.00
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.
$0.36 with Aetna vs $52.57 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 | CHIP/Medicaid | $0.36 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $0.72 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $0.78 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $0.78 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $0.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $0.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $0.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $0.80 | ↓ -98% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1.00 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1.10 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1.10 | ↓ -97% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1.60 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1.70 | ↓ -95% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1.70 | ↓ -95% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $4.06 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $7.69 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $9.93 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $24.14 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $25.81 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $26.17 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $34.56 | ↑ +5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $35.05 | ↑ +6% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $37.29 | ↑ +13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $52.57 | ↑ +59% |
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Transparent film >16<=48 in at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3.60 | $7.62 – $19.06 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4.20 | $7.69 – $35.02 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $47.40 | $4.64 – $39.02 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $34.20 | $7.69 – $29.62 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3.00 | $2.00 – $24.14 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2.40 | $1.00 – $24.14 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3.60 | $1.00 – $24.14 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3.00 | $7.62 – $9.93 |