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Intro cath dialysis circuit w/pta at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$5,757.00
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.
$9,595.00
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.
$195.43 with UPMC Health Plan vs $8,635.50 with Health Payors Organization — 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 | $195.43 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $204.31 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $263.47 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $281.13 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $302.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $755.06 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,055.38 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,700.56 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,753.02 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,909.21 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,277.29 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,677.01 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,921.68 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,974.45 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,262.30 | ↓ -43% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $3,358.25 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,492.55 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,646.10 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,838.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,838.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4,221.80 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4,531.22 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,677.26 | ↓ -19% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,797.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $5,578.14 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5,707.51 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $5,757.00 | ↑ +0% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5,870.58 | ↑ +2% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5,870.58 | ↑ +2% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5,870.58 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5,979.29 | ↑ +4% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7,196.25 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $7,676.00 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $7,676.00 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $7,867.90 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $8,635.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $8,635.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Intro cath dialysis circuit w/pta at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $8,240.40 | $195.43 – $11,673.90 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $11,656.80 | $195.43 – $16,513.80 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $6,340.80 | $195.43 – $8,982.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $8,154.60 | $195.43 – $11,552.35 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $12,150.60 | $195.43 – $15,188.25 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,851.80 | $195.43 – $3,802.40 |