Ventricular puncture prev burr hole without inj 61020 at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$2,650.80
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.
$4,418.00
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.
$479.71 with UPMC Work Partners vs $4,064.56 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $479.71 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $550.23 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $794.37 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $795.24 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $870.68 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $891.22 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $916.60 | ↓ -65% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $916.68 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $916.68 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $933.66 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,071.75 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,590.48 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,591.86 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,723.02 | ↓ -35% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,731.02 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,731.86 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,767.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,767.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,767.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,767.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,845.64 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,131.80 | ↓ -20% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,209.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,429.90 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,429.90 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,471.73 | ↓ -7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,092.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,197.71 | ↑ +21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $3,534.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,755.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,755.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $4,064.56 | ↑ +53% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ventricular puncture prev burr hole without inj 61020 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $1,016.50 | $205.80 – $1,780.57 |