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Cholecystostomy complete w/supervision & interpretation at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$5,515.20
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.
$9,192.00
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.
$226.80 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $7,813.20 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $226.80 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $899.91 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $900.85 | ↓ -84% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1,046.41 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1,654.56 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,233.09 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,990.40 | ↓ -46% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,633.70 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $3,633.70 | ↓ -34% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,633.70 | ↓ -34% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,633.70 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,633.70 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,700.99 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,700.99 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,310.13 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $4,586.20 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $5,055.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $5,974.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $5,980.81 | ↑ +8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $6,141.92 | ↑ +11% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $6,434.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $6,894.00 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $6,894.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $7,353.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $7,353.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7,353.60 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $7,353.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $7,813.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $7,813.20 | ↑ +42% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $7,813.20 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Cholecystostomy complete w/supervision & interpretation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,387.00 | $834.64 – $4,798.25 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,872.40 | $892.35 – $5,808.60 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $3,105.60 | $834.64 – $4,399.60 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $3,933.00 | $241.92 – $5,244.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,158.40 | $829.03 – $4,474.40 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,714.20 | $217.35 – $5,892.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $4,756.80 | $241.92 – $5,351.40 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,933.00 | $241.92 – $5,244.00 |