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Nm imaging hepatobiliary system w/pharmacologic intervention at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$1,663.20
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.
$2,772.00
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.
$208.17 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,494.80 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 | $208.17 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $290.78 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $364.11 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $380.66 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $427.79 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $468.83 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $490.89 | ↓ -70% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $523.79 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $523.96 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $526.63 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $538.84 | ↓ -68% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $554.23 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $554.23 | ↓ -67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $554.23 | ↓ -67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $564.11 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $564.50 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $627.84 | ↓ -62% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $693.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $773.39 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $844.07 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $859.32 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $884.30 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $942.48 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,053.36 | ↓ -37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,053.98 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,108.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,108.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,184.31 | ↓ -29% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,219.68 | ↓ -27% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,386.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $1,663.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,079.00 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $2,217.60 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $2,217.60 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $2,273.04 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $2,494.80 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $2,494.80 | ↑ +50% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Nm imaging hepatobiliary system w/pharmacologic intervention at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,404.00 | $210.15 – $1,989.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,581.00 | $210.15 – $6,489.75 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,640.60 | $210.15 – $3,740.85 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,956.60 | $364.11 – $2,608.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $855.60 | $292.63 – $1,212.10 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,574.40 | $206.06 – $1,968.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,366.40 | $364.11 – $2,662.20 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,956.60 | $364.11 – $2,608.80 |