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Insitu hybridization auto at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$1,083.60
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.
$1,806.00
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.
$135.22 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,097.71 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $135.22 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $172.14 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $179.96 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $232.07 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $235.99 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $244.30 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $266.69 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $318.70 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $342.95 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $342.95 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $357.79 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $360.10 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $360.10 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $370.35 | ↓ -66% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $370.39 | ↓ -66% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $370.39 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $377.25 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $377.25 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $380.46 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $409.81 | ↓ -62% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $416.04 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $447.60 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $516.98 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $548.85 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $655.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $783.30 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $877.23 | ↓ -19% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $928.77 | ↓ -14% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $951.15 | ↓ -12% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $951.15 | ↓ -12% |
| Humana | Commercial | $951.15 | ↓ -12% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,097.71 | ↑ +1% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Insitu hybridization auto at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $717.60 | $134.43 – $1,076.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,867.80 | $120.73 – $2,646.05 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,438.20 | $135.28 – $2,037.45 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $664.80 | $115.70 – $831.00 |