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Cornea pre-cut midwest eye cornea pre-cut midwest eye at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$11,265.60
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.
$18,776.00
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.
$4,694.00 with Aetna vs $16,898.40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $4,694.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $5,238.50 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $5,717.29 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $5,820.56 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $6,034.92 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $6,383.84 | ↓ -43% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $6,571.60 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $7,134.88 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $7,510.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $7,510.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $7,642.60 | ↓ -32% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $8,261.44 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $8,618.18 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $8,618.18 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $8,956.15 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $8,956.15 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $9,388.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $9,388.00 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $9,388.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $10,326.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $11,265.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $14,082.00 | ↑ +25% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $15,020.80 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $15,020.80 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $15,396.32 | ↑ +37% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $16,898.40 | ↑ +50% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $16,898.40 | ↑ +50% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Cornea pre-cut midwest eye cornea pre-cut midwest eye at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $12,602.40 | $5,251.00 – $17,853.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $14,521.80 | $4,356.54 – $20,572.55 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $11,550.60 | $4,812.75 – $16,363.35 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,200.00 | $300.00 – $1,800.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $21,789.60 | $4,577.64 – $27,237.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,451.20 | $326.52 – $1,632.60 |