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Mopath procedure level 3 at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$2,046.60
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.
$3,411.00
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.
$100.52 with UPMC Health Plan vs $997.58 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | Commercial | $100.52 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $125.32 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $148.57 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $150.33 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $154.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $157.85 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $162.36 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $162.36 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $162.36 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $165.36 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $193.63 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $211.32 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $215.14 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $235.96 | ↓ -88% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $242.90 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $263.72 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $277.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $277.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $305.36 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $312.06 | ↓ -85% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $347.00 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $364.34 | ↓ -82% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $381.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $416.40 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $471.27 | ↓ -77% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $520.50 | ↓ -75% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $555.20 | ↓ -73% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $555.20 | ↓ -73% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $569.08 | ↓ -72% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $624.60 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $624.60 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $631.09 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $744.88 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $997.58 | ↓ -51% |
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Mopath procedure level 3 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,169.60 | $101.11 – $556.75 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,046.60 | $106.69 – $589.90 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,046.60 | $101.36 – $1,739.10 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,052.40 | $117.38 – $779.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,046.60 | $101.16 – $1,739.10 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,211.20 | $117.38 – $835.20 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,314.60 | $117.38 – $535.20 |