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Brcassure comprehensive panel-sendout at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$1,920.00
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.
$3,200.00
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.
$892.80 with Aetna vs $5,553.16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $892.80 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $974.40 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $992.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,088.00 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,120.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $1,120.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,216.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,280.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,280.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,408.00 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,440.00 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,521.22 | ↓ -21% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,600.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,737.10 | ↓ -10% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1,784.32 | ↓ -7% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,803.57 | ↓ -6% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,824.88 | ↓ -5% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,865.43 | ↓ -3% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $1,872.69 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,916.12 | ↓ -0% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $1,920.00 | ↑ +0% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,970.87 | ↑ +3% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,970.87 | ↑ +3% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,970.87 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,007.37 | ↑ +5% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,400.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $2,405.59 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $2,560.00 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $2,560.00 | ↑ +33% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2,566.83 | ↑ +34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,623.41 | ↑ +37% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $2,624.00 | ↑ +37% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,764.40 | ↑ +44% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $2,880.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $2,880.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,513.09 | ↑ +83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $4,146.51 | ↑ +116% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $5,553.16 | ↑ +189% |
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Brcassure comprehensive panel-sendout at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,287.20 | $1,088.00 – $2,720.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,920.00 | $1,500.48 – $2,720.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,920.00 | $806.40 – $2,720.00 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,222.40 | $508.80 – $2,713.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,920.00 | $1,280.00 – $2,720.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,560.00 | $576.00 – $2,880.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,920.00 | $864.00 – $2,560.00 |