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CT heart w/evaluation of calcium without contrast at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$120.00
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.
$200.00
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.
$41.74 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $520.50 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $41.74 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $62.52 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $73.89 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $78.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $84.29 | ↓ -30% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $85.71 | ↓ -29% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $88.48 | ↓ -26% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $89.94 | ↓ -25% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $90.67 | ↓ -24% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $90.67 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $90.67 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $90.67 | ↓ -24% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $90.67 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $92.34 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $92.34 | ↓ -23% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $93.78 | ↓ -22% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $96.87 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $122.67 | ↑ +2% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $130.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $140.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $142.64 | ↑ +19% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $150.00 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $150.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $160.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $160.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $160.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $160.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $170.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $170.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $170.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $194.34 | ↑ +62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $260.25 | ↑ +117% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $366.56 | ↑ +205% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $490.92 | ↑ +309% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $520.50 | ↑ +334% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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CT heart w/evaluation of calcium without contrast at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $120.00 | $62.52 – $170.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $120.00 | $50.40 – $170.00 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $126.00 | $31.50 – $168.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $127.20 | $38.99 – $107.43 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $200.00 | $37.80 – $189.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $120.00 | $44.52 – $160.00 |