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Change g-tube to g-j perc at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$6,847.80
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.
$11,413.00
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.
$138.42 with UPMC Health Plan vs $12,981.87 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 | $138.42 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $163.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $186.62 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $189.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $195.90 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $199.13 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $214.46 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $931.20 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $931.86 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $1,904.08 | ↓ -72% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $1,953.23 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,953.23 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,953.23 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,954.59 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,989.40 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,989.40 | ↓ -71% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $2,272.78 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $4,719.98 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $6,320.67 | ↓ -8% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $7,418.45 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7,989.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $8,559.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $8,559.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $9,130.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $9,130.40 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $9,130.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $9,130.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $9,693.63 | ↑ +42% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $9,701.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $9,701.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $9,701.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $12,641.34 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $12,981.87 | ↑ +90% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Change g-tube to g-j perc at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,979.80 | $138.42 – $5,638.05 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,534.60 | $138.42 – $5,301.90 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $3,754.80 | $138.42 – $5,319.30 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,861.60 | $138.42 – $5,470.60 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $6,196.80 | $138.42 – $7,746.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,179.80 | $138.42 – $2,906.40 |