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Kit tissue closure sealant adhesive air leak progel 4 ml pleura at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$3,480.00
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.
$5,800.00
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.
$176.62 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,578.50 with Multiplan — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $176.62 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $266.74 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $271.59 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $357.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $363.68 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $470.06 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $595.28 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $716.25 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $799.34 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $872.39 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $888.15 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $974.10 | ↓ -72% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $1,002.75 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,088.70 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,146.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,146.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,260.60 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,432.50 | ↓ -59% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,432.50 | ↓ -59% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,575.75 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $1,719.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,148.75 | ↓ -38% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $2,292.00 | ↓ -34% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $2,292.00 | ↓ -34% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $2,349.30 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $2,578.50 | ↓ -26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $2,578.50 | ↓ -26% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Kit tissue closure sealant adhesive air leak progel 4 ml pleura at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,676.80 | $178.31 – $2,297.55 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,799.40 | $178.31 – $3,247.00 |