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Ins picad w subq port 5yr> at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$2,961.00
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.
$4,935.00
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.
$503.41 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,388.58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $503.41 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $903.55 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,677.90 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,974.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,011.75 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $2,279.97 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,507.85 | ↓ -15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,694.29 | ↓ -9% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,714.25 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,755.22 | ↓ -7% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,788.61 | ↓ -6% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $3,000.76 | ↑ +1% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $3,000.76 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,150.80 | ↑ +6% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $3,150.80 | ↑ +6% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $3,203.74 | ↑ +8% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,240.52 | ↑ +9% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,240.82 | ↑ +9% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,240.82 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,300.84 | ↑ +11% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $3,300.84 | ↑ +11% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,358.72 | ↑ +13% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,454.50 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,096.05 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,194.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $4,194.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,194.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $5,388.58 | ↑ +82% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Ins picad w subq port 5yr> at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $5,418.00 | $681.00 – $8,127.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,529.60 | $423.71 – $7,833.60 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,228.20 | $499.85 – $5,989.95 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,705.80 | $426.45 – $2,755.22 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,201.80 | $885.98 – $5,252.25 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,063.20 | $464.22 – $2,755.22 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,624.80 | $993.28 – $3,240.52 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $526.12 – $3,240.82 |