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Implant cartilage 10mm synthetic at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$17,191.20
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.
$28,652.00
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.
$44.44 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $4,906.09 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $44.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $50.50 | ↓ -100% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $66.66 | ↓ -100% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $68.34 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $68.68 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $78.78 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $78.78 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $78.78 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $78.78 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $80.80 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $84.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $101.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $101.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $141.40 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $157.56 | ↓ -99% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $167.66 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial | $171.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $171.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $171.70 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,906.09 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Implant cartilage 10mm synthetic at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $24,575.40 | $38.40 – $2,669.69 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $31,672.20 | $1.92 – $5,466.29 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $18,039.00 | $42.80 – $4,148.59 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $7,003.80 | $33.75 – $202.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $7,867.80 | $76.25 – $4,091.18 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $8,470.40 | $36.72 – $183.60 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $12,413.40 | $28.89 – $96.30 |