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Bronch ebus samplng 1/2 node at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$2,277.00
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.
$3,795.00
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.
$208.90 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,866.57 with Aetna — 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 Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $208.90 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $208.90 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $281.64 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $296.47 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $323.64 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $612.36 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $956.34 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,039.83 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,062.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,062.60 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,161.81 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,363.41 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,442.10 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,518.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,518.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,772.36 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,825.98 | ↓ -20% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,102.95 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,373.69 | ↑ +4% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,656.50 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $3,034.90 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,036.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $3,036.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,225.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,651.96 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,690.81 | ↑ +62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,795.91 | ↑ +67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,796.26 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,866.57 | ↑ +70% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Bronch ebus samplng 1/2 node at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,354.40 | $208.90 – $3,866.57 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,260.20 | $208.90 – $3,690.81 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,429.20 | $208.90 – $6,274.70 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,452.00 | $208.90 – $5,565.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $4,214.40 | $208.90 – $4,741.20 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,484.80 | $208.90 – $4,646.40 |