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Endoscopic injection/implant at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
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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.
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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.
$204.26 with UPMC Health Plan vs $10,105.96 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $204.26 | — |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $213.54 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $275.38 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $293.84 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $316.45 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $650.25 | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $681.00 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,631.43 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,741.03 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,247.21 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $3,374.33 | — |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,452.59 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,551.23 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,551.23 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,551.23 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,617.00 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,674.32 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,920.45 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $5,168.52 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $7,546.20 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $10,105.96 | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Endoscopic injection/implant at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $12,844.00 | $106.92 – $993.28 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $204.26 – $3,452.59 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | not published | $204.26 – $3,288.18 |