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G-esoph reflx tst w/electrod at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$1,296.60
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.
$2,161.00
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.
$281.61 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,869.60 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $281.61 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $343.02 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $386.17 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $456.38 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $520.62 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $529.40 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $540.25 | ↓ -58% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $546.33 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $546.33 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $546.33 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $546.33 | ↓ -58% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $546.33 | ↓ -58% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $546.50 | ↓ -58% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $555.52 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $556.45 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $598.28 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $698.07 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $934.80 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $945.98 | ↓ -27% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1,099.98 | ↓ -15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,312.41 | ↑ +1% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,404.65 | ↑ +8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,499.19 | ↑ +16% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,512.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $1,620.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $1,620.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $1,728.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,728.80 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $1,728.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,728.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,757.63 | ↑ +36% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $1,836.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $1,836.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,836.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,869.60 | ↑ +44% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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G-esoph reflx tst w/electrod at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,306.80 | $278.95 – $1,960.20 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,645.20 | $281.61 – $2,330.70 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,109.40 | $276.13 – $1,386.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $5,380.80 | $365.89 – $6,053.40 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $4,449.00 | $365.89 – $5,932.00 |