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Cath left heart/lv gram at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$11,458.20
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.
$19,097.00
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.
$931.20 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $16,232.45 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.
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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $931.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $1,056.32 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,415.47 | ↓ -88% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1,645.90 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,618.48 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,311.78 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $3,311.78 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,311.78 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,311.78 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,311.78 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,373.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,373.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $3,437.46 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,506.48 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $4,922.90 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5,537.28 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $6,592.98 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $7,012.97 | ↓ -39% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $10,503.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $12,413.05 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $13,367.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $14,322.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $14,322.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $15,277.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $15,277.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $15,277.60 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $15,277.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $16,232.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $16,232.45 | ↑ +42% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $16,232.45 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Cath left heart/lv gram at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $7,483.80 | $1,046.36 – $11,225.70 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $13,842.00 | $1,056.32 – $19,609.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $5,695.80 | $1,257.63 – $8,069.05 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $5,240.40 | $892.40 – $6,550.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,955.80 | $993.28 – $5,274.40 |