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Guid loc target vol rad tx at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$1,322.40
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.
$2,204.00
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.
$16.04 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,873.40 with InterGroup — 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 | $16.04 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $39.77 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $53.26 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $75.01 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $76.57 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $87.49 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $100.46 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $103.40 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $106.52 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $117.96 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $119.95 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $123.82 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $125.86 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $135.55 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $551.00 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $723.07 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,102.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,432.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,542.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $1,653.00 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $1,653.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $1,763.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,763.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,763.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $1,763.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $1,873.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,873.40 | ↑ +42% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $1,873.40 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | not published by hospital | — |
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Guid loc target vol rad tx at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $823.20 | $16.04 – $1,166.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $843.60 | $16.04 – $1,195.10 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,214.40 | $41.25 – $1,720.40 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $300.60 | $15.73 – $375.75 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $292.20 | $81.68 – $438.30 |