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Contrast exam thoracic aorta 75605-26 at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$6,583.20
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.
$10,972.00
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.
$42.90 with UPMC Health Plan vs $9,326.20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $42.90 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $44.85 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $57.84 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $60.88 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $66.46 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $527.97 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $610.44 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,312.63 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,359.15 | ↓ -79% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $1,526.31 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,694.31 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,820.27 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,269.17 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,640.54 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,730.48 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,388.80 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4,789.32 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $5,069.06 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $5,153.69 | ↓ -22% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $5,153.69 | ↓ -22% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $5,411.37 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5,411.37 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5,565.47 | ↓ -15% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↓ -15% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5,565.99 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5,669.06 | ↓ -14% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $5,669.06 | ↓ -14% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7,680.40 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $9,106.76 | ↑ +38% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $9,326.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $9,326.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $9,326.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Contrast exam thoracic aorta 75605-26 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,045.20 | $42.90 – $6,067.80 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $9,483.60 | $33.00 – $13,435.10 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,938.80 | $42.90 – $5,411.37 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $9,796.20 | $31.62 – $12,245.25 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,557.80 | $35.20 – $3,410.40 |