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Ultrasound guidance for vascular access at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$189.60
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.
$316.00
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.
$15.14 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $268.60 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 |
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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $15.14 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $28.08 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $33.19 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $36.07 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $37.86 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $38.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $39.74 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $40.40 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $43.51 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $73.04 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $79.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $84.93 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $89.40 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $92.18 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $119.72 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $158.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $168.63 | ↓ -11% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $205.40 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $221.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $225.84 | ↑ +19% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $237.00 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $237.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $239.45 | ↑ +26% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $252.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $252.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $252.80 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $252.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $268.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $268.60 | ↑ +42% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $268.60 | ↑ +42% |
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Ultrasound guidance for vascular access at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $381.60 | $28.08 – $540.60 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $168.60 | $28.08 – $252.90 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $173.40 | $28.08 – $245.65 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $400.20 | $16.15 – $533.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $254.40 | $28.08 – $360.40 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $663.60 | $14.51 – $330.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $484.00 | $16.15 – $544.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $400.20 | $16.15 – $533.60 |