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Liberta rc ipg at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$59,552.40
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.
$99,254.00
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.
$4,022.88 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $54,778.64 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $4,022.88 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $4,190.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $4,676.60 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $5,104.03 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $5,196.22 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $5,531.46 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $5,670.58 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $5,699.08 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $6,369.56 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $6,704.80 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $6,704.80 | ↓ -89% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7,375.28 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $7,693.76 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $7,693.76 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $7,995.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $7,995.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $8,381.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $8,381.00 | ↓ -86% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $8,381.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $10,057.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $12,571.50 | ↓ -79% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $13,409.60 | ↓ -77% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $13,409.60 | ↓ -77% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $13,744.84 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $15,085.80 | ↓ -75% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $15,085.80 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $43,255.56 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $54,778.64 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Bravo | Medicare | not published by hospital | — |
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Liberta rc ipg at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $52,306.80 | $238.70 – $79,490.65 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $75,797.40 | $508.80 – $88,567.28 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $41,431.80 | $11,415.00 – $67,217.30 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $39,513.60 | $1,502.85 – $9,017.10 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $7,270.40 | $1,635.84 – $8,179.20 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $39,513.60 | $2,003.80 – $9,017.10 |