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Cath blazer dx/20 2-10-2 space at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$5,446.80
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.
$9,078.00
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.
$1,115.71 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $8,206.37 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $1,115.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,505.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,047.48 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,408.80 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $2,782.16 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,011.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,063.64 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,096.70 | ↓ -43% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $3,312.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,103.19 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,147.36 | ↓ -24% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4,215.40 | ↓ -23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,998.26 | ↓ -8% |
| Humana | Commercial | $5,118.70 | ↓ -6% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $5,118.70 | ↓ -6% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $5,118.70 | ↓ -6% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5,446.41 | ↓ -0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $8,206.37 | ↑ +51% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Cath blazer dx/20 2-10-2 space at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $6,525.60 | $1,105.19 – $5,417.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $10,047.60 | $1,115.71 – $6,068.31 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $3,710.40 | $1,094.01 – $3,729.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $219.00 | $73.00 – $328.50 |