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Sigmoidoscopy/submucosal injection 45335 at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$1,315.20
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.
$2,192.00
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.
$86.52 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,529.19 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $86.52 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $90.45 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $116.64 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $122.78 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $134.04 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $264.33 | ↓ -80% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $307.36 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $591.77 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $743.24 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $748.88 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $807.76 | ↓ -39% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $869.21 | ↓ -34% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $869.21 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $874.40 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $912.67 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $912.67 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $938.66 | ↓ -29% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $938.75 | ↓ -29% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $938.75 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $956.13 | ↓ -27% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $956.13 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $1,009.93 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,317.57 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,530.20 | ↑ +16% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,642.49 | ↑ +25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,764.60 | ↑ +34% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,814.38 | ↑ +38% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,858.10 | ↑ +41% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $1,858.10 | ↑ +41% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,858.10 | ↑ +41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,199.76 | ↑ +67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,529.19 | ↑ +168% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Sigmoidoscopy/submucosal injection 45335 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,374.60 | $86.52 – $2,061.90 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,480.00 | $86.52 – $4,930.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,235.60 | $86.52 – $3,167.10 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,156.60 | $86.52 – $4,208.80 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | not published | $86.52 – $993.28 |