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Cystic fibrosis cftr at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$6,408.00
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.
$10,680.00
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.
$439.12 with UPMC Health Plan vs $9,874.23 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.
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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $439.12 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $459.08 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $463.72 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $493.18 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $499.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $499.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $523.95 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $523.95 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $538.87 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $538.92 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $538.92 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $548.90 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $548.90 | ↓ -91% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $573.46 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $592.01 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $623.19 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $680.32 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $2,122.79 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,630.52 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,686.40 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,271.20 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,510.39 | ↓ -30% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $4,933.24 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,937.11 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $5,891.89 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7,474.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $7,890.92 | ↑ +23% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $8,862.74 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $9,076.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $9,076.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $9,076.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $9,874.23 | ↑ +54% |
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Cystic fibrosis cftr at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,054.80 | $415.97 – $6,082.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,054.80 | $399.20 – $4,253.40 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $3,474.60 | $439.12 – $4,632.80 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $4,001.60 | $399.20 – $4,248.90 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,831.00 | $439.12 – $3,854.40 |