Colonoscopy w/ablation at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$2,320.80
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.
$3,868.00
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.
$363.38 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,287.80 with Humana — 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 | $363.38 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $809.07 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,008.59 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,044.64 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,083.57 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $1,124.11 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $1,124.11 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,180.32 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $1,180.32 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,213.93 | ↓ -48% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,214.04 | ↓ -48% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,214.04 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,236.52 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $1,236.52 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,262.48 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,315.12 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,350.79 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,547.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $1,787.02 | ↓ -23% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,127.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,167.14 | ↓ -7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,707.60 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,210.44 | ↑ +38% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,287.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $3,287.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,287.80 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Colonoscopy w/ablation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,028.60 | $363.38 – $1,236.52 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,349.80 | $359.96 – $1,236.52 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $10,513.80 | $363.38 – $1,283.80 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,501.40 | $363.38 – $1,236.52 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,764.60 | $359.96 – $2,352.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $4,516.80 | $405.58 – $6,775.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $916.80 | $423.56 – $1,222.40 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,055.20 | $363.38 – $4,073.60 |