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Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$4,170.00
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.
$6,950.00
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.
$330.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,907.50 with Humana — 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 | $330.00 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $330.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $444.90 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $468.33 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $511.26 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $736.75 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $998.01 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,031.89 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,607.42 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,640.37 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,751.40 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,904.30 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,946.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,946.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,954.82 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,010.48 | ↓ -52% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,010.67 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,047.90 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,132.40 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,196.91 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,641.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,780.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,780.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,855.88 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,393.81 | ↑ +5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4,865.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $5,560.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $5,560.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $5,907.50 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,958.20 | $330.00 – $5,607.45 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $3,572.40 | $330.00 – $5,477.68 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,037.40 | $330.00 – $2,299.50 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | not published | $330.00 – $2,047.90 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $763.80 | $315.00 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $3,255.60 | $330.00 – $4,612.10 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $1,610.40 | $330.00 – $2,147.20 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $4,530.60 | $330.00 – $6,040.80 |