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Drainage external ear simple 69000 at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$753.00
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.
$1,255.00
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.
$47.30 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,231.01 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $47.30 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $47.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $63.77 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $67.13 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $73.28 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $153.82 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $206.41 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $285.51 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $316.26 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $343.87 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $351.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $351.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $459.58 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $476.90 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $502.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $502.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $579.16 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $597.43 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $615.50 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $704.33 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $724.39 | ↓ -4% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $724.45 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $737.87 | ↓ -2% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $800.13 | ↑ +6% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $878.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,004.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $1,004.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,066.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,231.01 | ↑ +63% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Drainage external ear simple 69000 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $615.00 | $47.30 – $871.25 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $576.00 | $47.30 – $864.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,341.60 | $47.30 – $1,900.60 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $589.80 | $47.30 – $993.28 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,134.60 | $47.30 – $1,607.35 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $924.60 | $47.30 – $1,155.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $712.80 | $47.30 – $993.28 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $591.60 | $47.30 – $993.28 |