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Cutter lead at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$10,158.00
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.
$16,930.00
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.
$23.40 with Aetna vs $3,043.50 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $23.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $32.50 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $65.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $71.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $84.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $91.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $97.50 | ↓ -99% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $97.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $104.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $104.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $104.00 | ↓ -99% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $104.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $110.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial | $110.50 | ↓ -99% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $110.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $303.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $505.29 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $514.46 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $676.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $688.92 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $730.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,156.53 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,353.32 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,758.96 | ↓ -83% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2,059.23 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | First Health | $3,043.50 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | not published by hospital | — |
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Cutter lead at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,284.40 | $204.75 – $859.06 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $9,055.20 | $21.75 – $1,578.70 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,882.80 | $87.75 – $1,334.95 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $195.60 | $17.70 – $106.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,829.40 | $142.00 – $1,316.47 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,505.40 | $298.08 – $939.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $619.20 | $11.56 – $57.83 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,079.80 | $31.86 – $228.20 |