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M/phmtrc alys ishquant/semiq at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$108.00
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.
$180.00
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.
$24.94 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $116.00 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 | $24.94 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $30.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $41.48 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $43.31 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $48.80 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $50.40 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $51.53 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $52.69 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $56.36 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $58.00 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $61.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $67.95 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $69.22 | ↓ -36% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $71.53 | ↓ -34% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $78.09 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $78.53 | ↓ -27% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $85.40 | ↓ -21% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $91.31 | ↓ -15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $92.70 | ↓ -14% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $101.26 | ↓ -6% |
| Humana | Commercial | $103.70 | ↓ -4% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $103.70 | ↓ -4% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $103.70 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $116.00 | ↑ +7% |
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M/phmtrc alys ishquant/semiq at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $91.80 | $24.70 – $137.70 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $198.60 | $24.94 – $281.35 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $152.40 | $50.40 – $215.90 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $177.00 | $24.45 – $221.25 |