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Brach/thor cath 1st at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$3,108.00
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.
$5,180.00
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.
$189.20 with UPMC Health Plan vs $8,120.19 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $189.20 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $189.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $255.08 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $268.51 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $293.12 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $672.41 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,295.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,305.36 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,361.59 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,419.32 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,450.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,450.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,968.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,072.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,072.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,469.34 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,590.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,031.56 | ↓ -2% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,626.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,940.88 | ↑ +27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,060.09 | ↑ +31% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,144.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $4,144.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,403.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $5,277.94 | ↑ +70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $8,120.19 | ↑ +161% |
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Brach/thor cath 1st at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $7,318.20 | $189.20 – $10,367.45 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,953.00 | $189.20 – $7,429.50 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $13,008.00 | $189.20 – $18,428.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $8,405.40 | $189.20 – $11,907.65 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,321.20 | $189.20 – $5,401.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,107.60 | $189.20 – $1,476.80 |