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Coronary angio/cath placement bypass graft/lv gram/lt heart at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$11,828.40
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.
$19,714.00
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 $16,756.90 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 | $1,447.33 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,944.29 | ↓ -84% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $2,260.80 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,311.78 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $3,311.78 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,311.78 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,311.78 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,311.78 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,373.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,373.11 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $3,548.52 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,587.73 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,804.44 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $6,745.16 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $9,017.44 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $9,033.43 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $9,608.89 | ↓ -19% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $10,842.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $12,814.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $13,799.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $14,785.50 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $14,785.50 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $15,771.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $15,771.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $15,771.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $15,771.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $16,756.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $16,756.90 | ↑ +42% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $16,756.90 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Coronary angio/cath placement bypass graft/lv gram/lt heart at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $13,261.20 | $1,433.67 – $19,891.80 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $19,176.00 | $1,447.33 – $27,166.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $9,024.60 | $1,728.43 – $12,784.85 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $6,234.00 | $892.40 – $7,792.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $5,770.20 | $993.28 – $7,693.60 |