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Cath 2lum 14.5frx43cm maxid kt mahurkar at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$1,950.00
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.
$3,250.00
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.
$37.44 with Aetna vs $1,598.50 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $37.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $52.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $104.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $104.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $106.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $106.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $110.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $110.24 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $114.40 | ↓ -94% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $135.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $145.60 | ↓ -93% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $156.00 | ↓ -92% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $156.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $166.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $166.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $166.40 | ↓ -91% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $166.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $176.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Commercial | $176.80 | ↓ -91% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $176.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $212.16 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $383.64 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $607.43 | ↓ -69% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1,081.55 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,566.20 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | First Health | $1,598.50 | ↓ -18% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | not published by hospital | — |
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Cath 2lum 14.5frx43cm maxid kt mahurkar at other Pennsylvania hospitals
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,345.80 | $96.96 – $764.92 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,062.60 | $52.25 – $1,405.69 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $973.80 | $41.25 – $1,188.65 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $428.40 | $178.50 – $1,172.20 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $364.20 | $63.80 – $580.21 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $454.40 | $102.24 – $511.20 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $403.80 | $118.80 – $396.00 |