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Contrast exam abdominl aorta 75625-26 at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$2,938.80
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.
$4,898.00
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.
$42.90 with UPMC Health Plan vs $4,163.30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $42.90 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $42.90 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $57.84 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $60.88 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $66.46 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $534.06 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $610.44 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,234.30 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,312.63 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,342.05 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,359.15 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,371.44 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,371.44 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,766.82 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,820.27 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,861.24 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,959.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,959.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,366.27 | ↓ -19% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,590.86 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,150.80 | ↑ +7% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,240.52 | ↑ +10% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,240.82 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,300.84 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,428.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,640.54 | ↑ +24% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,918.40 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $3,918.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,163.30 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Contrast exam abdominl aorta 75625-26 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $7,103.40 | $42.90 – $10,063.15 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4,130.40 | $42.90 – $6,195.60 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,260.20 | $33.00 – $7,451.95 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,833.20 | $42.90 – $4,013.70 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $5,906.40 | $31.62 – $7,383.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $4,797.60 | $35.20 – $6,396.80 |