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Device tiss remov myosure reach at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$2,681.40
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.
$4,469.00
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.
$318.02 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,719.90 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $318.02 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $477.75 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $480.28 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $489.01 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $533.17 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $581.90 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $592.41 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $643.16 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $649.74 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $654.83 | ↓ -76% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $668.85 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $726.18 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $764.40 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $764.40 | ↓ -71% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $840.84 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $955.50 | ↓ -64% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $955.50 | ↓ -64% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,051.05 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,075.83 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $1,146.60 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,362.42 | ↓ -49% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,433.25 | ↓ -47% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $1,528.80 | ↓ -43% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $1,528.80 | ↓ -43% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $1,567.02 | ↓ -42% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $1,719.90 | ↓ -36% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $1,719.90 | ↓ -36% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,260.40 | $321.05 – $2,366.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,790.20 | $321.05 – $5,369.45 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,707.20 | $432.45 – $2,594.70 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,842.20 | $825.39 – $4,026.45 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $3,273.60 | $470.70 – $2,353.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,707.20 | $645.57 – $2,151.90 |