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Laparoscopy fundoplasty at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
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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.
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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.
$931.20 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $12,457.20 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $931.20 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $1,827.13 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,479.64 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,644.27 | — |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $2,883.30 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $4,529.22 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $6,065.21 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $9,301.86 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $10,719.92 | — |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $10,719.92 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $10,719.92 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $10,719.92 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $10,719.92 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $10,918.43 | — |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $10,918.43 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $12,130.42 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $12,457.20 | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Laparoscopy fundoplasty at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $1,809.89 – $10,918.43 |