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Implant cochlear osia osi300 at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$9,325.80
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.
$15,543.00
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.
$799.92 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $55,371.67 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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $799.92 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $909.00 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,199.88 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1,230.06 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,236.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,454.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $1,519.85 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,818.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,545.20 | ↓ -73% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3,017.88 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,090.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $3,090.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,090.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $7,528.14 | ↓ -19% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $20,671.60 | ↑ +122% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $20,894.66 | ↑ +124% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $27,685.83 | ↑ +197% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $27,983.91 | ↑ +200% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $32,566.47 | ↑ +249% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $55,371.67 | ↑ +494% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Implant cochlear osia osi300 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $10,466.40 | $1,039.20 – $17,721.34 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $13,955.40 | $289.20 – $36,285.07 |