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Removal cerclage w/anes at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$7,680.00
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.
$12,800.00
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.
$331.31 with UPMC Work Partners vs $10,880.00 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $331.31 | ↓ -96% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $385.25 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,274.16 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,434.41 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,816.99 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,836.90 | ↓ -63% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $3,031.30 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $3,031.30 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,182.86 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $3,182.86 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,273.50 | ↓ -57% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,273.80 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,273.80 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,334.43 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $3,334.43 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,536.49 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,799.40 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $4,352.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,736.37 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5,120.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $5,913.60 | ↓ -23% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $7,040.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $7,598.80 | ↓ -1% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $8,960.00 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $10,624.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $10,880.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $10,880.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $10,880.00 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |