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Artiss fibrin sealant at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$2,568.00
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.
$4,280.00
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.
$31.62 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,981.80 with Health Payors Organization — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $31.62 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $47.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $48.62 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $63.94 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $65.10 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $118.28 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $145.61 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $148.98 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $153.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $153.24 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $153.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $156.08 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $407.05 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $515.48 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $614.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $670.51 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $682.62 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $748.68 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $764.75 | ↓ -70% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $770.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $836.76 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $880.80 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $880.80 | ↓ -66% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $968.88 | ↓ -62% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,101.00 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,211.10 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $1,321.20 | ↓ -49% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,651.50 | ↓ -36% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $1,761.60 | ↓ -31% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $1,761.60 | ↓ -31% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $1,805.64 | ↓ -30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $1,981.80 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $1,981.80 | ↓ -23% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Artiss fibrin sealant at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $6,662.40 | $31.92 – $1,062.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,076.20 | $141.89 – $4,614.30 |