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Cath council tip 16fr 5cc at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$71.40
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.
$119.00
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.
$2.25 with Aetna vs $110.52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $2.25 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3.06 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3.51 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3.51 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3.51 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3.51 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3.60 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $4.16 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4.50 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $4.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $6.30 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $7.02 | ↓ -90% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $7.47 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Commercial | $7.65 | ↓ -89% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $7.65 | ↓ -89% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7.65 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $22.46 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $31.77 | ↓ -56% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $36.94 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $110.52 | ↑ +55% |
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Cath council tip 16fr 5cc at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $75.00 | $2.00 – $60.14 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $496.20 | $1.98 – $123.14 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $32.40 | $2.50 – $93.45 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $45.60 | $2.25 – $31.77 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $130.20 | $2.00 – $92.16 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $57.60 | $1.71 – $31.77 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $42.00 | $2.70 – $31.77 |