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Cath bi-dir df smarttouch at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$17,618.40
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.
$29,364.00
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.
$60.48 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $14,689.72 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $60.48 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $90.72 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $95.76 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $126.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $166.32 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $170.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | First Health | $252.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $252.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $327.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $352.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $378.00 | ↓ -98% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $378.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $403.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $403.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $403.20 | ↓ -98% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $403.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $428.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Commercial | $428.40 | ↓ -98% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $428.40 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $2,092.50 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,478.14 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,541.25 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,657.70 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,742.12 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $9,315.41 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $14,689.72 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | not published by hospital | — |
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Cath bi-dir df smarttouch at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $10,770.60 | $1,370.64 – $7,174.34 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $13,549.80 | $483.34 – $13,184.27 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $5,540.40 | $1,846.80 – $11,148.62 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,185.60 | $296.40 – $1,778.40 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $8,232.00 | $1,534.24 – $5,441.92 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,433.60 | $322.56 – $1,612.80 |