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Arthrodes/ant/cerv below c2 ea add 22552 at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
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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.
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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.
$619.41 with UPMC Work Partners vs $4,542.54 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.
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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $619.41 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $761.69 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,695.89 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,204.58 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,271.27 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,436.50 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,952.55 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,542.54 | — |
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Arthrodes/ant/cerv below c2 ea add 22552 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | not published | $619.41 – $2,350.20 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $696.05 – $2,331.30 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | not published | $389.68 – $2,389.89 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $619.41 – $3,039.21 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | not published | $415.65 – $684.24 |