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CT guidance for needle placement at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$2,065.20
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.
$3,442.00
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.
$174.66 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,097.80 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 Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $174.66 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $182.60 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $235.47 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $251.25 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $270.59 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $418.53 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $572.21 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $678.35 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $860.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $860.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $942.61 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $960.32 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,048.09 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,067.02 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,170.28 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,262.29 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,307.96 | ↓ -37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,365.73 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,376.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,376.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,514.48 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,721.00 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,721.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,777.91 | ↓ -14% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $2,065.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,381.09 | ↑ +15% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,581.50 | ↑ +25% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $2,753.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $2,753.60 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $2,822.44 | ↑ +37% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $3,097.80 | ↑ +50% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $3,097.80 | ↑ +50% |
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CT guidance for needle placement at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,179.20 | $174.66 – $3,087.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,498.00 | $122.70 – $4,955.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,235.00 | $174.66 – $3,166.25 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,904.60 | $130.88 – $3,872.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,516.20 | $174.66 – $2,147.95 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $914.40 | $97.66 – $468.73 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $3,512.00 | $130.88 – $3,951.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,904.60 | $130.88 – $3,872.80 |