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Change of windpipe airway 31502 at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$319.80
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.
$533.00
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.
$93.83 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $559.55 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.
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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 | $93.83 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $126.57 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $127.65 | ↓ -60% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $147.17 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $181.22 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $205.74 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $208.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $213.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $221.39 | ↓ -31% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $221.39 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $232.46 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $232.46 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $239.08 | ↓ -25% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $239.10 | ↓ -25% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $239.10 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $243.53 | ↓ -24% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $243.53 | ↓ -24% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $246.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $260.42 | ↓ -19% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $279.77 | ↓ -13% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $293.15 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $348.77 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $373.10 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $442.39 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $453.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $453.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $453.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $559.55 | ↑ +75% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Change of windpipe airway 31502 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $841.20 | $92.94 – $1,261.80 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $453.00 | $93.83 – $641.75 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $319.20 | $93.83 – $452.20 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $472.80 | $118.20 – $630.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $580.20 | $119.08 – $821.95 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $463.80 | $92.00 – $579.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $571.20 | $117.61 – $642.60 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $472.80 | $126.57 – $630.40 |