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New Patient Office Visit (level 5) at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$377.40
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.
$629.00
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.
$36.08 with Aetna of PA vs $566.10 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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| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $36.08 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $63.91 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $63.91 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $129.29 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $135.17 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $149.43 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $157.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $174.31 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $175.49 | ↓ -54% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $186.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $191.53 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $194.99 | ↓ -48% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $200.31 | ↓ -47% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $220.15 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $239.02 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $251.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $254.08 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $261.30 | ↓ -31% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $276.76 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $280.88 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $314.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $314.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $340.29 | ↓ -10% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $349.98 | ↓ -7% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $377.40 | ↑ +0% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $452.70 | ↑ +20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $471.75 | ↑ +25% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $503.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $503.20 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $515.78 | ↑ +37% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $566.10 | ↑ +50% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $566.10 | ↑ +50% |
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New Patient Office Visit (level 5) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $663.60 | $129.29 – $940.10 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $456.60 | $129.29 – $700.12 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $362.40 | $129.29 – $513.40 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $468.00 | $129.29 – $663.00 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $505.80 | $147.82 – $513.40 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $516.00 | $36.08 – $688.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $360.60 | $90.15 – $527.06 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $343.80 | $30.00 – $458.40 |