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Ot training self care/home management direct contact each 15 minutes at UPMC Passavant-McCandless

9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 7, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$115.80

Cash price

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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.

$193.00

Gross charge

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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.

$25.73 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $164.05 with Private Health Care Systems — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $25.73 ↓ -78%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $44.68 ↓ -61%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $44.79 ↓ -61%
Aetna Medicare $48.25 ↓ -58%
Private Health Care Systems Workers' Comp $52.08 ↓ -55%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $59.83 ↓ -48%
Cigna New Business ASO $65.62 ↓ -43%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $71.41 ↓ -38%
Cigna Commercial $77.20 ↓ -33%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Commercial $89.17 ↓ -23%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $95.63 ↓ -17%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $96.50 ↓ -17%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $106.15 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $119.67 ↑ +3%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $123.44 ↑ +7%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $135.10 ↑ +17%
InterGroup PPO $160.19 ↑ +38%
Humana Commercial $164.05 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) $164.05 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $164.05 ↑ +42%

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Ot training self care/home management direct contact each 15 minutes at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $126.60 $25.48 – $189.90
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $150.60 $24.31 – $213.35
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $181.80 $25.73 – $257.55
UPMC Muncy Muncy $130.20 $25.93 – $173.60
UPMC Northwest Seneca $64.80 $27.00 – $102.94
UPMC Somerset Somerset $97.20 $23.30 – $121.50
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $157.60 $25.93 – $140.40
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $103.20 $25.93 – $137.60

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