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Insertion subcutaneous cardiac rhythm monitor at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$8,850.60
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.
$14,751.00
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.
$3,040.85 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $18,134.90 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 BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $3,040.85 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,941.79 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $5,015.34 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5,900.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $5,974.86 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $6,770.41 | ↓ -24% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $6,814.96 | ↓ -23% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $6,947.51 | ↓ -22% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $7,332.32 | ↓ -17% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $7,890.15 | ↓ -11% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $7,890.15 | ↓ -11% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $8,113.05 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $8,284.66 | ↓ -6% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $8,284.66 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $8,440.00 | ↓ -5% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $8,520.57 | ↓ -4% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $8,521.36 | ↓ -4% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $8,521.36 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $8,679.17 | ↓ -2% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $8,679.17 | ↓ -2% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $9,067.45 | ↑ +2% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $10,325.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $11,303.57 | ↑ +28% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $12,243.33 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $12,538.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $12,538.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $12,538.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $18,134.90 | ↑ +105% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Insertion subcutaneous cardiac rhythm monitor at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $8,470.20 | $3,012.17 – $12,705.30 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $12,462.00 | $931.20 – $17,654.50 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $17,281.80 | $892.40 – $21,602.25 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,804.40 | $993.28 – $8,520.57 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $5,097.41 – $8,521.36 |