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Dornhoffer fixed part w/window at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$54,599.40
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.
$90,999.00
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.
$0.96 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $110,581.39 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $0.96 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $1.52 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2.64 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | First Health | $4.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $5.20 | ↓ -100% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $5.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $6.00 | ↓ -100% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $6.00 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $6.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $6.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $6.40 | ↓ -100% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $6.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $6.80 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial | $6.80 | ↓ -100% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $6.80 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $21,942.70 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $36,472.95 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $37,134.79 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $48,842.25 | ↓ -11% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $49,727.44 | ↓ -9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $97,684.49 | ↑ +79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $110,581.39 | ↑ +103% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | not published by hospital | — |
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Dornhoffer fixed part w/window at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $53,356.20 | $403.44 – $54,007.08 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $29,415.60 | $10,785.72 – $99,248.70 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $36,517.20 | $9,129.30 – $54,775.80 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $44,163.20 | $9,936.72 – $49,683.60 |