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M/phmtrc alys ishquant/semiq at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$591.00
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.
$985.00
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.
$94.07 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $837.25 with Humana — 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 | $94.07 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $132.35 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $156.36 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $161.78 | ↓ -73% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $176.44 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $176.44 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $176.44 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $176.44 | ↓ -70% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $176.44 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $177.96 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $179.71 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $179.71 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $209.39 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $210.31 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $239.92 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $247.14 | ↓ -58% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $251.84 | ↓ -57% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $256.00 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $275.71 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $316.64 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $330.98 | ↓ -44% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $361.64 | ↓ -39% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $368.19 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $418.78 | ↓ -29% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $640.25 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $689.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $738.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $738.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $788.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $788.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $788.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $788.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $837.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $837.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $837.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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M/phmtrc alys ishquant/semiq at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $507.60 | $93.18 – $761.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $559.80 | $94.07 – $391.85 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $404.40 | $101.10 – $539.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $646.80 | $148.16 – $916.30 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $337.20 | $92.24 – $421.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $488.80 | $109.98 – $549.90 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $404.40 | $141.17 – $539.20 |