Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$183.60
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.
$306.00
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.
$28.27 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $369.51 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $28.27 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $28.27 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $33.41 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $38.11 | ↓ -79% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $40.01 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $40.67 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $43.80 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $51.26 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $60.27 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $98.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $110.16 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $115.01 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $119.34 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $119.95 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $122.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $122.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $122.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $122.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $126.06 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $129.03 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $132.71 | ↓ -28% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $132.72 | ↓ -28% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $132.72 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $135.18 | ↓ -26% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $151.39 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $153.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $183.94 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $202.18 | ↑ +10% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $214.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $244.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $246.34 | ↑ +34% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $260.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $260.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $270.76 | ↑ +47% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $281.52 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $369.51 | ↑ +101% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $272.40 | $28.27 – $135.18 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $121.20 | $28.27 – $135.18 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $355.80 | $28.27 – $135.18 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $186.60 | $28.27 – $135.18 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $110.40 | $25.70 – $147.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $133.20 | $26.98 – $199.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $273.00 | $32.64 – $386.75 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $133.20 | $26.98 – $177.60 |