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Change g-tube to g-j perc at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$3,534.60
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.
$5,891.00
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.
$138.42 with UPMC Health Plan vs $11,683.66 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 | $138.42 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $144.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $186.62 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $199.13 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $214.46 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,507.61 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,538.87 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,643.59 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,793.81 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,826.21 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $1,855.93 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,886.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,898.98 | ↓ -46% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↓ -45% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,953.23 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,954.59 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,989.40 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,002.94 | ↓ -43% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $2,061.85 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,238.58 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,356.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,356.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,449.38 | ↓ -31% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,592.04 | ↓ -27% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,945.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $3,534.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $4,247.94 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,418.25 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $4,712.80 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $4,712.80 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $4,830.62 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $5,301.90 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $5,301.90 | ↑ +50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $5,688.61 | ↑ +61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $8,724.29 | ↑ +147% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $11,683.66 | ↑ +231% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Change g-tube to g-j perc at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,979.80 | $138.42 – $5,638.05 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $6,847.80 | $138.42 – $9,701.05 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $3,754.80 | $138.42 – $5,319.30 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,861.60 | $138.42 – $5,470.60 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $6,196.80 | $138.42 – $7,746.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,179.80 | $138.42 – $2,906.40 |