Cornea pre-cut midwest eye cornea pre-cut midwest eye at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$12,602.40
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.
$21,004.00
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.
$5,251.00 with Aetna vs $17,853.40 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $5,251.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $7,141.36 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $8,191.56 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $8,191.56 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $8,191.56 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $8,191.56 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $8,401.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $9,703.85 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $10,502.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $10,502.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $11,090.37 | ↓ -12% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $11,552.20 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $14,702.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $16,383.12 | ↑ +30% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $17,433.32 | ↑ +38% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $17,853.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $17,853.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $17,853.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $11,265.60 | $6,034.92 – $6,034.92 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $14,521.80 | $12,356.72 – $12,356.72 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $11,550.60 | $9,378.02 – $9,378.02 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $21,789.60 | $4,975.29 – $30,868.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $21,789.60 | $7,263.20 – $30,868.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $7,849.80 | $3,270.75 – $10,466.40 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $21,789.60 | $7,642.60 – $7,642.60 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $8,864.40 | $1,448.30 – $7,642.60 |