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Electrophysiology evaluation at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$184.80
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.
$308.00
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.
$77.00 with Aetna vs $888.35 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $77.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $104.72 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $123.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $126.96 | ↓ -31% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $130.10 | ↓ -30% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $142.30 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $154.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $169.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $215.60 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $255.64 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $261.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $261.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $261.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $331.64 | ↑ +79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $352.39 | ↑ +91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $413.80 | ↑ +124% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $444.16 | ↑ +140% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $471.96 | ↑ +155% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $481.16 | ↑ +160% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $888.35 | ↑ +381% |
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Electrophysiology evaluation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $695.40 | $125.77 – $1,043.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $226.20 | $37.45 – $465.28 |