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Lam facetec & foramot lumbar at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
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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.
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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.
$1,862.37 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $11,106.73 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 | $1,862.37 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,743.69 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $4,146.54 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $5,160.78 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $5,169.08 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $5,553.37 | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $6,000.91 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $6,329.17 | — |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $6,810.69 | — |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $6,810.69 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $6,922.88 | — |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $7,151.22 | — |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $7,151.22 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $7,354.86 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $7,355.55 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $7,355.55 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $7,491.76 | — |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $7,491.76 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $11,106.73 | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Lam facetec & foramot lumbar at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $1,844.80 – $7,491.76 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | not published | $931.20 – $7,491.76 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | not published | $1,862.37 – $7,491.76 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $3,548.06 – $7,355.55 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | not published | $892.40 – $7,354.86 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | not published | $993.28 – $7,355.55 |