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Prgrmg dev eval scrms ip 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

$649.80

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.

$1,083.00

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.

$11.64 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $920.55 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.

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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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $11.64 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $29.85 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $32.97 ↓ -95%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $35.28 ↓ -95%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $38.39 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare $38.39 ↓ -94%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $38.39 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $38.39 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $38.39 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare $39.10 ↓ -94%
Aetna of PA Medicare $39.10 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $40.25 ↓ -94%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $40.93 ↓ -94%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $42.25 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $42.95 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $46.25 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $81.73 ↓ -87%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $82.39 ↓ -87%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $95.80 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $109.45 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $153.65 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $205.78 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $218.89 ↓ -66%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $473.53 ↓ -27%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $703.95 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $758.10 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $812.25 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $812.25 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $866.40 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $866.40 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $866.40 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $866.40 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $920.55 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $920.55 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $920.55 ↑ +42%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Prgrmg dev eval scrms ip at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $192.00 $29.85 – $272.00
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $330.00 $29.85 – $467.50
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $225.00 $12.42 – $300.00

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