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Established Patient Office Visit (level 3) at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$147.60
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.
$246.00
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.
$36.08 with Aetna of PA vs $302.38 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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| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $36.08 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $38.50 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $42.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $45.50 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $51.91 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $52.78 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $54.38 | ↓ -63% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $54.48 | ↓ -63% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $55.38 | ↓ -62% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $59.65 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $61.50 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $89.45 | ↓ -39% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $104.01 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $112.89 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $116.10 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $123.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $151.19 | ↑ +2% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $155.49 | ↑ +5% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $159.90 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $172.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $184.50 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $184.50 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $196.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $196.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $196.80 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $196.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $209.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $209.10 | ↑ +42% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $209.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $302.38 | ↑ +105% |
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Established Patient Office Visit (level 3) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $179.40 | $38.50 – $254.15 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $183.60 | $38.50 – $281.52 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $141.00 | $36.08 – $211.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $183.60 | $38.50 – $260.10 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $426.00 | $53.29 – $209.10 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $186.60 | $36.08 – $248.80 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $230.40 | $20.00 – $307.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $121.20 | $36.08 – $181.80 |