Veeg cont 2-12 hrs at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,062.60
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.
$1,771.00
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.
$464.97 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,995.90 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 | CHIP | $464.97 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $473.43 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $488.68 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $518.91 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $531.15 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $546.28 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $546.33 | ↓ -49% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $546.33 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $550.00 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $550.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $556.45 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $637.56 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $650.00 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $690.69 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $694.23 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $708.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $708.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $708.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $708.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $718.30 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $741.50 | ↓ -30% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $778.35 | ↓ -27% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $791.20 | ↓ -26% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $852.10 | ↓ -20% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $885.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,239.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,416.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,491.37 | ↑ +40% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,505.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,505.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,629.32 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,639.19 | ↑ +54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,997.27 | ↑ +88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,195.24 | ↑ +107% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,995.90 | ↑ +182% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Veeg cont 2-12 hrs at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,126.20 | $367.16 – $575.00 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,194.00 | $470.10 – $575.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,502.40 | $488.68 – $778.35 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,065.60 | $464.97 – $1,420.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,178.40 | $232.19 – $754.00 |