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Filter spider fx 3mmx320cm at UPMC Mercy

1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$40,462.20

Cash price

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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.

$67,437.00

Gross charge

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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.

$91.00 with Aetna vs $3,501.88 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Aetna Medicare $91.00 ↓ -100%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $101.56 ↓ -100%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $110.84 ↓ -100%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $112.84 ↓ -100%
Cigna New Business ASO $123.76 ↓ -100%
Bravo Medicare $127.40 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR FI $138.32 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR ASO $145.60 ↓ -100%
Cigna Commercial $145.60 ↓ -100%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $160.16 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $182.00 ↓ -100%
InterGroup PPO $182.00 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $200.20 ↓ -100%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $218.40 ↓ -99%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $273.00 ↓ -99%
American Healthcare Group Commercial $291.20 ↓ -99%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $291.20 ↓ -99%
National Provider Network PPO $298.48 ↓ -99%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $327.60 ↓ -99%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $327.60 ↓ -99%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $763.20 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1,075.79 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,372.50 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $1,700.71 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,738.13 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $2,568.45 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $2,615.11 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $3,439.48 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $3,501.88 ↓ -91%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Filter spider fx 3mmx320cm at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $9,370.80 $53.75 – $2,522.24
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $53,950.20 $76.68 – $3,787.61
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