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300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$7,321.20
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.
$12,202.00
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.
$266.53 with UPMC Health Plan vs $13,740.06 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $266.53 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $266.53 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $314.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $359.33 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $377.19 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $383.42 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $412.93 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,097.04 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $2,364.24 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,808.41 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $3,078.18 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,150.80 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,240.52 | ↓ -56% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,240.82 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,240.82 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,300.84 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $4,392.72 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $4,758.78 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $4,783.18 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $4,880.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $4,880.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $4,880.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,880.80 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $6,101.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $6,839.98 | ↓ -7% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $7,930.44 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $8,541.40 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $8,969.57 | ↑ +23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $9,160.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $9,761.60 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $9,879.74 | ↑ +35% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $10,371.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $10,371.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $10,620.62 | ↑ +45% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $11,225.84 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $13,740.06 | ↑ +88% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Trnscath retrv pq vasc fb w/guide at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $9,246.00 | $266.53 – $3,300.84 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $16,263.00 | $266.53 – $3,300.84 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $24,280.80 | $266.53 – $3,300.84 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $7,438.80 | $266.53 – $3,300.84 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $5,317.20 | $242.30 – $7,089.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $7,288.20 | $307.72 – $10,324.95 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $7,288.20 | $307.72 – $10,324.95 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $13,363.80 | $266.53 – $17,818.40 |