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Incision & drainage hematoma/seroma/fluid collection at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$1,226.40
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.
$2,044.00
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.
$25.85 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,737.40 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $25.85 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $25.85 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $34.85 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $36.69 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $40.05 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $172.24 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $206.41 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $286.01 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $459.58 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $511.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $515.09 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $560.06 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $572.32 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $572.32 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $597.43 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $615.50 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $776.72 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $800.13 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $817.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $817.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,022.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,231.01 | ↑ +0% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,333.69 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,430.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,621.93 | ↑ +32% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,635.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $1,635.20 | ↑ +33% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,668.28 | ↑ +36% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,737.40 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Incision & drainage hematoma/seroma/fluid collection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,386.00 | $25.85 – $1,961.80 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,386.00 | $25.85 – $2,079.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,416.00 | $25.85 – $2,006.00 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $3,349.80 | $25.85 – $4,466.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,223.40 | $25.85 – $1,733.15 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,080.80 | $25.85 – $2,601.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $3,349.80 | $23.40 – $792.32 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,349.80 | $25.85 – $1,302.40 |