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Egd balloon dil esoph30 mm/> at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$759.00
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.
$1,265.00
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.
$174.50 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,989.40 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 | $174.50 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $352.94 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $363.38 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $385.19 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $392.15 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $393.02 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $430.10 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $442.75 | ↓ -42% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $442.75 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $480.70 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $506.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $506.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $526.31 | ↓ -31% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $556.60 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $569.25 | ↓ -25% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $632.50 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $695.75 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $759.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $807.17 | ↑ +6% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $948.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $1,012.00 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $1,012.00 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $1,037.30 | ↑ +37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,080.97 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $1,138.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $1,138.50 | ↑ +50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,507.61 | ↑ +99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $1,855.93 | ↑ +145% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,898.98 | ↑ +150% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↑ +157% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↑ +157% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,953.23 | ↑ +157% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,989.40 | ↑ +162% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Egd balloon dil esoph30 mm/> at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,442.20 | $176.17 – $4,876.45 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,215.60 | $176.17 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,213.20 | $176.17 – $1,953.05 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $4,128.80 | $332.32 – $4,644.90 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,414.00 | $332.32 – $4,552.00 |