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Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$2,615.40
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.
$4,359.00
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.
$618.25 with UPMC Work Partners vs $3,738.24 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 | $618.25 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $626.83 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,098.47 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,194.37 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,220.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,220.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,395.62 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,607.42 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,656.42 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,743.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,743.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,814.24 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,869.12 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,954.82 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,010.48 | ↓ -23% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,010.67 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,047.90 | ↓ -22% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,065.76 | ↓ -21% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,397.45 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,429.77 | ↓ -7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,051.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,487.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $3,487.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,705.15 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,738.24 | ↑ +43% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,192.80 | $618.25 – $5,939.80 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $7,348.20 | $197.27 – $11,022.30 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,494.60 | $626.83 – $6,367.35 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4,350.00 | $618.25 – $6,162.50 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,908.20 | $614.63 – $3,635.25 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,434.40 | $618.25 – $4,579.20 |