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Paring/cutting benign hyperkeratotic lesion single at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$197.40
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.
$329.00
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.
$22.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $429.03 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 | Managed Medicaid | $22.00 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $23.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $29.66 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $31.65 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $34.08 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $47.10 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $69.26 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $91.79 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $100.18 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $101.99 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $111.86 | ↓ -43% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $115.15 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $125.02 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $131.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $131.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $144.76 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $155.99 | ↓ -21% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $157.92 | ↓ -20% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $164.50 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $194.40 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $197.40 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $198.91 | ↑ +1% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $204.60 | ↑ +4% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $204.60 | ↑ +4% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $204.60 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $208.38 | ↑ +6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $208.89 | ↑ +6% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $246.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $263.20 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $263.20 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $264.19 | ↑ +34% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $269.78 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $296.10 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $296.10 | ↑ +50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $320.36 | ↑ +62% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $420.50 | ↑ +113% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $429.03 | ↑ +117% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Paring/cutting benign hyperkeratotic lesion single at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $347.40 | $22.00 – $492.15 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $251.40 | $22.00 – $931.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $325.80 | $22.00 – $461.55 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $453.00 | $22.00 – $641.75 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $288.60 | $22.00 – $892.40 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $29.20 | $6.57 – $993.28 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $230.40 | $22.00 – $993.28 |