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Angio tib/peroneal/init ves/unila 37228 at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$29,775.00
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.
$49,625.00
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.
$7,969.78 with UPMC Work Partners vs $58,449.03 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $7,969.78 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $9,334.97 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $9,800.70 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $10,521.49 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $11,352.46 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $11,675.74 | ↓ -61% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $11,676.82 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $11,893.06 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $12,505.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $13,597.25 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $13,895.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $13,895.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $18,857.50 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $19,850.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $19,850.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $21,821.11 | ↓ -27% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $27,293.75 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $28,366.40 | ↓ -5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $29,224.51 | ↓ -2% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $34,737.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $37,990.56 | ↑ +28% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $39,700.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $39,700.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $42,181.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $58,449.03 | ↑ +96% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Angio tib/peroneal/init ves/unila 37228 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $59,645.40 | $7,969.78 – $84,497.65 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $37,499.40 | $518.43 – $56,249.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $30,499.20 | $518.43 – $43,207.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $37,266.60 | $7,969.78 – $52,794.35 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $17,281.80 | $892.40 – $21,602.25 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $4,394.40 | $993.28 – $11,675.74 |