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Tissue matrix 1.8x1.8cm collagen dermacell porous 4sq cm cost per sq cm at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$3,150.60
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.
$5,251.00
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.
$64.56 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,828.60 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 | $64.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $97.49 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $99.27 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $130.56 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $132.93 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,063.50 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,186.87 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,295.34 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,318.74 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,446.36 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,477.41 | ↓ -53% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $1,488.90 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,488.90 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,616.52 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,701.60 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,701.60 | ↓ -46% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,871.76 | ↓ -41% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,914.30 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,127.00 | ↓ -32% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,127.00 | ↓ -32% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,339.70 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $2,552.40 | ↓ -19% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,190.50 | ↑ +1% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $3,403.20 | ↑ +8% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $3,403.20 | ↑ +8% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $3,488.28 | ↑ +11% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $3,828.60 | ↑ +22% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $3,828.60 | ↑ +22% |
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Tissue matrix 1.8x1.8cm collagen dermacell porous 4sq cm cost per sq cm at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,342.20 | $65.17 – $6,151.45 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $4,244.40 | $473.25 – $2,839.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $4,244.40 | $567.90 – $2,839.50 |