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Radphm lcl tmr plnr bdy sgl day img 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

$8,832.60

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.

$14,721.00

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.

$84.00 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $12,512.85 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 $84.00 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $120.98 ↓ -99%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $142.97 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $163.10 ↓ -98%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $165.85 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $171.21 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $174.03 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $187.43 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $310.60 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $604.88 ↓ -93%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $714.51 ↓ -92%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $769.93 ↓ -91%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $830.83 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $1,031.04 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $1,344.19 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,344.19 ↓ -85%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $1,344.19 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1,344.19 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,344.19 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicare $1,369.08 ↓ -84%
Aetna of PA Medicare $1,369.08 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $1,452.21 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $1,944.86 ↓ -78%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $2,062.08 ↓ -77%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $9,568.65 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $10,304.70 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $11,040.75 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $11,040.75 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $11,776.80 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $11,776.80 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $11,776.80 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $11,776.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $12,512.85 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $12,512.85 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $12,512.85 ↑ +42%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Radphm lcl tmr plnr bdy sgl day img at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,646.00 $120.98 – $3,748.50
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $3,076.80 $120.98 – $4,615.20
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $2,575.20 $120.98 – $3,648.20
UPMC Muncy Muncy $1,360.80 $89.60 – $1,814.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,936.80 $120.98 – $2,743.80
UPMC Somerset Somerset $4,242.60 $80.50 – $5,303.25
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $1,645.60 $89.60 – $1,851.30
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $1,360.80 $89.60 – $1,814.40

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