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Pelvic CT scan (with and without contrast) at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$3,394.80
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.
$5,658.00
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.
$141.48 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,092.20 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $141.48 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $174.17 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $174.96 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $178.21 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $182.91 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $183.30 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $183.30 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $183.30 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $186.69 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $235.87 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $251.68 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $271.05 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $381.41 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $434.77 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $960.96 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $979.20 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,311.29 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,382.47 | ↓ -59% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $1,414.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,578.58 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,722.86 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,753.98 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,846.92 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,923.72 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,150.04 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,263.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,263.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,473.52 | ↓ -27% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,489.52 | ↓ -27% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,829.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $3,394.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,243.50 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $4,526.40 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $4,526.40 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $4,639.56 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $5,092.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $5,092.20 | ↑ +50% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Pelvic CT scan (with and without contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,953.20 | $157.72 – $4,183.70 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $3,515.40 | $158.84 – $5,390.28 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,112.00 | $123.00 – $7,242.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $3,029.40 | $146.54 – $4,291.65 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,242.40 | $170.18 – $4,323.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $4,104.00 | $140.66 – $4,788.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,424.40 | $134.28 – $2,017.90 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,627.20 | $102.50 – $2,169.60 |