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Egd/remov tum/polyp/hot bx forcep 43250 at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$2,501.40
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.
$4,169.00
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.
$736.75 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $4,393.81 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $736.75 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,039.05 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,050.59 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,134.32 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,142.31 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,167.32 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,167.32 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,561.50 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,584.22 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,640.37 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,667.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,667.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,898.98 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,953.05 | ↓ -22% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,953.23 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,989.40 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,132.40 | ↓ -15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,196.91 | ↓ -12% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,292.95 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,855.88 | ↑ +14% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,918.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,335.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $3,335.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,543.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,393.81 | ↑ +76% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Egd/remov tum/polyp/hot bx forcep 43250 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,867.60 | $736.75 – $5,479.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,330.80 | $736.75 – $6,135.30 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $596.00 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4,283.40 | $1,093.66 – $6,068.15 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $4,128.80 | $928.98 – $4,644.90 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,414.00 | $993.28 – $4,552.00 |