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Dx bronchoscope/lavage 31624 at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$3,608.40
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.
$6,014.00
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.
$98.72 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,111.90 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 | Commercial | $98.72 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $148.66 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $148.66 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $200.43 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $210.98 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $230.32 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $492.70 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $792.58 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,419.50 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,515.53 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,647.84 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,683.92 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,683.92 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,726.28 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,764.66 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,775.44 | ↓ -51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,775.61 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,808.49 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,285.32 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,293.98 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,363.37 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,405.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,405.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,072.28 | ↓ -15% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4,209.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,726.74 | ↑ +31% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,811.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $4,811.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $5,111.90 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Dx bronchoscope/lavage 31624 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,055.40 | $99.43 – $5,745.15 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,967.40 | $138.20 – $2,951.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $6,400.80 | $83.69 – $9,067.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4,661.40 | $103.91 – $6,603.65 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,168.40 | $148.66 – $2,710.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $3,540.00 | $148.66 – $3,982.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,926.80 | $148.66 – $3,902.40 |