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Hernia Repair (Inguinal) 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.
$349.25 with UPMC Health Plan vs $6,386.35 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 | $349.25 | — |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $365.12 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $470.85 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $502.41 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $541.08 | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $840.00 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,030.96 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,159.68 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,042.23 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,321.94 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,804.68 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,109.42 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,250.58 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $3,452.69 | — |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,532.77 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,633.70 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,633.70 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,633.70 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,700.99 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $4,768.74 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $6,386.35 | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Hernia Repair (Inguinal) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $5,322.00 | $349.25 – $7,539.50 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,450.40 | $349.25 – $11,971.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $918.00 | $333.38 – $1,470.59 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,696.80 | $428.62 – $9,755.55 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,696.80 | $349.25 – $3,364.54 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $317.50 – $3,633.70 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | not published | $333.38 – $3,633.70 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $349.25 – $3,700.99 |