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Njx interlaminar lmbr/sac at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$2,770.20
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.
$4,617.00
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.
$87.09 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,924.45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $87.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $102.92 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $117.41 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $119.39 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $123.24 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $125.28 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $134.92 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $143.27 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $323.05 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $355.15 | ↓ -87% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $375.64 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $475.59 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $729.39 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $931.20 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $951.18 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $976.81 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,154.25 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,406.96 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,308.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $3,001.05 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,231.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $3,462.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $3,462.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $3,693.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $3,693.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,693.60 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $3,693.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $3,924.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,924.45 | ↑ +42% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $3,924.45 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Njx interlaminar lmbr/sac at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,455.40 | $87.09 – $4,895.15 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,883.00 | $87.09 – $4,324.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $3,477.00 | $87.09 – $4,925.75 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,149.80 | $87.09 – $2,687.25 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $913.80 | $87.09 – $1,218.40 |