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Ligation major artery neck at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$3,231.00
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.
$5,385.00
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.
$707.89 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $4,846.50 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $707.89 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,141.73 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,502.41 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,594.31 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,639.73 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,669.35 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,830.90 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,884.75 | ↓ -42% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $1,884.75 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,046.30 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,135.01 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,154.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,154.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,369.40 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,423.25 | ↓ -25% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,501.43 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,692.50 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,961.75 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $3,079.38 | ↓ -5% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,150.80 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $3,231.00 | ↑ +0% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,240.82 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,240.82 | ↑ +0% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,240.82 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,274.34 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,300.84 | ↑ +2% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,038.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $4,308.00 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $4,308.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,385.03 | ↑ +36% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $4,415.70 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $4,846.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $4,846.50 | ↑ +50% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ligation major artery neck at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,192.60 | $714.63 – $4,522.85 |