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Remove ureter stent percut at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$10,887.60
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.
$18,146.00
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.
$1,628.03 with UPMC Health Plan vs $16,331.40 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 Medicare | $1,628.03 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $2,004.18 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $2,050.66 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,109.25 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,109.25 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,109.25 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,148.31 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $2,614.07 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,830.26 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $5,062.73 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $5,525.46 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $5,625.26 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $5,887.42 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $6,169.64 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $6,351.10 | ↓ -42% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $6,351.10 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $6,895.48 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $7,258.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $7,258.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $7,884.11 | ↓ -28% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7,984.24 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $8,165.70 | ↓ -25% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $9,073.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $9,980.30 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $10,887.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $12,091.40 | ↑ +11% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $13,609.50 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $14,516.80 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $14,516.80 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $14,879.72 | ↑ +37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $16,192.93 | ↑ +49% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $16,331.40 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $16,331.40 | ↑ +50% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Remove ureter stent percut at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $12,596.40 | $1,814.93 – $17,844.90 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $11,020.80 | $931.20 – $15,612.80 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $12,039.00 | $1,686.23 – $17,055.25 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $6,318.00 | $892.40 – $7,897.50 |