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Pulmonary vent imaging at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$705.60
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.
$1,176.00
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.
$141.88 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,058.40 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 Medicaid | $141.88 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $148.33 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $176.31 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $191.28 | ↓ -73% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $204.10 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $219.81 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $241.38 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $272.95 | ↓ -61% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $294.00 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $319.35 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $328.10 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $358.09 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $364.56 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $393.14 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $397.08 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $399.84 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $402.25 | ↓ -43% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $413.75 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $413.75 | ↓ -41% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $413.75 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $421.41 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $446.88 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $470.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $470.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $485.97 | ↓ -31% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $517.44 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $531.75 | ↓ -25% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $588.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $705.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $748.95 | ↑ +6% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $882.00 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $940.80 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $940.80 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $964.32 | ↑ +37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,003.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $1,058.40 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $1,058.40 | ↑ +50% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Pulmonary vent imaging at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $748.80 | $141.88 – $1,060.80 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,059.00 | $132.89 – $1,500.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $672.00 | $141.88 – $952.00 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,403.40 | $141.75 – $1,871.20 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,228.80 | $127.35 – $1,536.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,697.60 | $141.75 – $1,909.80 |