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Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$4,192.80
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.
$6,988.00
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.
$618.25 with UPMC Work Partners vs $5,939.80 with Private Health Care Systems — 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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $618.25 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $626.83 | ↓ -85% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $718.90 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,395.62 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,730.11 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,739.78 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $1,861.73 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $1,861.73 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,869.12 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,954.82 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $1,954.82 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,010.48 | ↓ -52% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,010.67 | ↓ -52% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,010.67 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,047.90 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $2,047.90 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,080.47 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,330.06 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,375.92 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,795.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $3,228.46 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,738.24 | ↓ -11% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $3,843.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4,891.60 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $5,800.04 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $5,939.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $5,939.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $5,939.80 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $7,348.20 | $197.27 – $11,022.30 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,494.60 | $626.83 – $6,367.35 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,615.40 | $618.25 – $3,705.15 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4,350.00 | $618.25 – $6,162.50 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,908.20 | $614.63 – $3,635.25 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,434.40 | $618.25 – $4,579.20 |