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Repair finger/hand tendon 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.
$404.25 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,402.68 with United Healthcare — 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $404.25 | — |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $422.62 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $545.00 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $550.23 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $573.70 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $626.29 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $783.20 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,225.07 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,301.45 | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $1,513.31 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,527.18 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,640.71 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,045.33 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,874.65 | — |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $3,093.35 | — |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $3,093.35 | — |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,248.02 | — |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $3,248.02 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,281.43 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,340.51 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,340.82 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,340.82 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,402.68 | — |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $3,402.68 | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Repair finger/hand tendon at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,763.20 | $404.25 – $5,644.80 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,261.60 | $404.25 – $4,620.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,430.80 | $404.25 – $4,860.30 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,150.20 | $404.25 – $5,187.75 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,505.20 | $404.25 – $4,673.60 |