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Dilat xst trc ndurlgc px at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$2,397.00
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.
$3,995.00
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.
$94.52 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,617.00 with Aetna — 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 | $94.52 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $202.19 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $212.88 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $285.08 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $437.20 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $585.51 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,114.61 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,216.48 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,238.45 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,358.30 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,398.25 | ↓ -42% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $1,398.25 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,518.10 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,598.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,598.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,757.80 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,797.75 | ↓ -25% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,997.50 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,197.25 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $2,397.00 | ↑ +0% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,741.03 | ↑ +14% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,996.25 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $3,196.00 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $3,196.00 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $3,275.90 | ↑ +37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $3,374.33 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,452.59 | ↑ +44% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,551.23 | ↑ +48% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,551.23 | ↑ +48% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,551.23 | ↑ +48% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $3,595.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $3,595.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,617.00 | ↑ +51% |
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Dilat xst trc ndurlgc px at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,437.60 | $95.42 – $6,286.60 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,140.00 | $95.42 – $5,865.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,577.00 | $95.42 – $3,650.75 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $9,487.80 | $93.56 – $11,859.75 |