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Pt evaluation high complexity patient/family at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$382.20
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.
$637.00
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.
$51.56 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $573.30 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $51.56 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $77.87 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $79.29 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $104.28 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $106.17 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $141.19 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $159.25 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $175.73 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $177.72 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $193.97 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $197.47 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $216.58 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $222.54 | ↓ -42% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $222.95 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $242.06 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $254.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $254.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $280.28 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $318.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $318.50 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $350.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $382.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $477.75 | ↑ +25% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $509.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $509.60 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $522.34 | ↑ +37% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $573.30 | ↑ +50% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $573.30 | ↑ +50% |
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Pt evaluation high complexity patient/family at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $345.00 | $52.05 – $488.75 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $692.40 | $52.05 – $980.90 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $303.00 | $52.05 – $429.25 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $197.40 | $49.35 – $263.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $320.40 | $127.65 – $453.90 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $363.00 | $51.04 – $453.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $238.40 | $53.64 – $268.20 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $197.40 | $81.42 – $263.20 |