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Brachy source yttrium-90 at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$34,334.40
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.
$57,224.00
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.
$8,749.82 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $223,567.27 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | $8,749.82 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $12,589.28 | ↓ -63% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $15,491.38 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $16,669.94 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $16,669.94 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $17,503.44 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $17,503.44 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $18,001.87 | ↓ -48% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $18,003.54 | ↓ -48% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $18,003.54 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $18,336.93 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $18,336.93 | ↓ -47% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $18,883.92 | ↓ -45% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $19,358.88 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $19,456.16 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $22,889.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $23,919.63 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $24,026.22 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $24,285.47 | ↓ -29% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $32,178.73 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $32,525.17 | ↓ -5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $40,056.80 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $47,495.92 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $48,640.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $48,640.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $48,640.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $64,357.45 | ↑ +87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $223,567.27 | ↑ +551% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Brachy source yttrium-90 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $133,443.60 | $8,749.82 – $189,045.10 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $39,612.00 | $8,579.63 – $49,515.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $37,851.00 | $10,939.80 – $49,229.10 |