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Lysis intranasal synechia 30560 at UPMC Presbyterian

200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

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Cash price

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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

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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.

$38.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,023.10 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $38.50
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $45.50
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $51.91
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $52.78
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $54.48
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $55.38
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $59.65
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $177.06
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $205.88
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $524.35
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $524.35
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $524.35
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $524.35
United Healthcare Medicare $524.35
Aetna Medicare $534.06
Aetna of PA Medicare $534.06
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $736.75
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $881.49
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $1,603.20
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $1,826.31
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $2,445.67
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $3,750.78
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $4,891.34
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $5,023.10
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Lysis intranasal synechia 30560 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Northwest Seneca not published $38.50 – $509.79

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