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Placement stent(s) intravascular transcatheter artery initial 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

$13,400.40

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$22,334.00

Gross charge

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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.

$420.05 with UPMC Health Plan vs $18,983.90 with Humana — same scan, same building. Share

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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

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

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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $420.05 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $439.14 ↓ -97%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $566.30 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $596.12 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $650.77 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $1,987.96 ↓ -85%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $3,750.33 ↓ -72%
Private Health Care Systems Workers' Comp $4,360.85 ↓ -67%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $4,426.17 ↓ -67%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $4,663.57 ↓ -65%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $5,517.67 ↓ -59%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $5,927.87 ↓ -56%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $7,389.74 ↓ -45%
Cigna New Business ASO $7,593.56 ↓ -43%
Cigna Commercial $8,933.60 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $10,047.47 ↓ -25%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Commercial $10,318.31 ↓ -23%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicare $10,811.87 ↓ -19%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicaid $10,811.87 ↓ -19%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $11,352.46 ↓ -15%
Aetna of PA Medicare $11,352.46 ↓ -15%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $11,675.74 ↓ -13%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $11,676.82 ↓ -13%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $11,676.82 ↓ -13%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $11,855.75 ↓ -12%
Aetna Medicare $11,893.06 ↓ -11%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $11,893.06 ↓ -11%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $15,633.80 ↑ +17%
InterGroup PPO $18,537.22 ↑ +38%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $18,983.90 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) $18,983.90 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $18,983.90 ↑ +42%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Placement stent(s) intravascular transcatheter artery initial at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $13,400.40 $420.05 – $20,100.60
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $18,933.60 $420.05 – $26,822.60
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $13,400.40 $420.05 – $18,983.90
UPMC Northwest Seneca $12,780.00 $420.05 – $18,105.00
UPMC Somerset Somerset $21,745.20 $420.05 – $27,181.50
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $4,478.40 $420.05 – $5,971.20

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