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Rp loclzj tum spect w/ct 2 at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$3,322.20
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.
$5,537.00
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.
$450.66 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $4,706.45 with Humana — 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 | $450.66 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $792.37 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $828.39 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,003.39 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $1,068.26 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,090.14 | ↓ -67% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1,124.52 | ↓ -66% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,227.60 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,250.83 | ↓ -62% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $1,267.60 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,292.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,343.82 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $1,390.59 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $1,390.59 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $1,460.12 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,460.12 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,501.70 | ↓ -55% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,501.84 | ↓ -55% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,501.84 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,529.65 | ↓ -54% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $1,529.65 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,675.21 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,882.58 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,214.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $2,558.09 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,687.63 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,086.90 | ↓ -7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,875.90 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,595.71 | ↑ +38% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,706.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $4,706.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,706.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Rp loclzj tum spect w/ct 2 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,430.40 | $450.66 – $6,276.40 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $3,139.20 | $784.80 – $4,185.60 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,812.60 | $441.89 – $6,015.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $3,796.80 | $792.37 – $4,271.40 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,139.20 | $792.37 – $4,185.60 |