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Icd cobalt xt dr MRI is1 df1 at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$49,471.80
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.
$82,453.00
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.
$17,072.82 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $85,343.66 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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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 | $17,072.82 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $19,788.72 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $20,613.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $23,004.39 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $25,106.94 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $25,560.43 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $25,783.74 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $26,252.17 | ↓ -47% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $27,209.49 | ↓ -45% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $27,893.85 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $28,034.02 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $31,332.14 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $32,981.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $32,981.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $34,527.73 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $35,154.13 | ↓ -29% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $36,279.32 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $41,226.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $41,226.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $49,471.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $61,839.75 | ↑ +25% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $65,962.40 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $65,962.40 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $67,391.01 | ↑ +36% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $67,611.46 | ↑ +37% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $74,207.70 | ↑ +50% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $74,207.70 | ↑ +50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $85,343.66 | ↑ +73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Bravo | Medicare | not published by hospital | — |
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Icd cobalt xt dr MRI is1 df1 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $96,952.20 | $0.22 – $123,844.32 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $60,194.40 | $0.12 – $137,985.46 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $36,540.60 | $12,180.20 – $51,117.81 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $61,359.00 | $0.20 – $0.90 |