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Abd/low ext cath 1st at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$5,849.40
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.
$9,749.00
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.
$771.90 with UPMC Work Partners vs $8,286.65 with InterGroup — 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.
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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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $771.90 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $844.93 | ↓ -86% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $897.56 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $931.20 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,505.27 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1,754.82 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,094.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,437.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,804.78 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $4,301.52 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4,874.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $5,361.95 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $5,609.55 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $5,760.66 | ↓ -2% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $6,336.85 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $6,824.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $7,311.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $7,311.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $7,799.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $7,799.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7,799.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $7,799.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $8,286.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $8,286.65 | ↑ +42% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $8,286.65 | ↑ +42% |
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Abd/low ext cath 1st at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,540.80 | $763.10 – $6,432.80 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,752.00 | $771.90 – $7,128.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,860.60 | $763.10 – $2,635.85 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $5,015.40 | $726.45 – $7,105.15 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,321.20 | $717.91 – $5,401.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,138.20 | $512.19 – $1,517.60 |