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Mopath procedure level 8 at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$1,687.80
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.
$2,813.00
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.
$280.95 with Aetna vs $6,066.81 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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| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $280.95 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $306.63 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $312.17 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $342.38 | ↓ -80% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $352.45 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $382.66 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $402.80 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $402.80 | ↓ -76% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $443.08 | ↓ -74% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $503.50 | ↓ -70% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $553.85 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $604.20 | ↓ -64% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $705.45 | ↓ -58% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $755.25 | ↓ -55% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $805.60 | ↓ -52% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $805.60 | ↓ -52% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $825.74 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $833.37 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $836.39 | ↓ -50% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $846.27 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $868.44 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $888.58 | ↓ -47% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $906.30 | ↓ -46% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $906.30 | ↓ -46% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $913.97 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $913.97 | ↓ -46% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $913.97 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $930.90 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,897.78 | ↑ +12% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,866.07 | ↑ +70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,020.64 | ↑ +79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,838.03 | ↑ +127% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $4,530.04 | ↑ +168% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $6,066.81 | ↑ +259% |
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Mopath procedure level 8 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,400.80 | $786.44 – $2,232.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,687.80 | $60.48 – $1,915.85 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,687.80 | $253.76 – $1,915.85 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,792.80 | $448.20 – $2,390.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,687.80 | $402.80 – $913.97 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,276.80 | $458.46 – $2,292.30 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,672.20 | $377.24 – $913.89 |