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Follow-up angiography at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$749.40
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.
$1,249.00
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.
$136.47 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,300.84 with Aetna — 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 Health Plan | Commercial | $136.47 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $154.34 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $314.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $342.23 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $343.22 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $343.64 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $349.72 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $349.72 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $446.72 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $460.23 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $474.62 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $499.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $499.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $598.28 | ↓ -20% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $686.95 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $874.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $920.46 | ↑ +23% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $999.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $999.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,061.65 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,590.86 | ↑ +246% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,150.80 | ↑ +320% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,240.52 | ↑ +332% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,240.82 | ↑ +332% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,300.84 | ↑ +340% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Follow-up angiography at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,536.60 | $135.34 – $3,240.82 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,260.20 | $154.34 – $7,451.95 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $3,476.40 | $151.34 – $4,345.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,141.80 | $343.22 – $3,240.52 |