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Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$3,000.60
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.
$5,001.00
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.
$570.04 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,529.19 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $570.04 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $591.77 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $670.57 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $693.24 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $712.98 | ↓ -76% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $713.05 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $726.25 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $729.11 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $745.08 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $745.08 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,011.18 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,064.40 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,064.40 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,317.57 | ↓ -56% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,463.55 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,712.78 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,764.60 | ↓ -41% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,823.52 | ↓ -39% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,862.70 | ↓ -38% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,128.80 | ↓ -29% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $2,128.80 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,261.85 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,293.90 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,529.19 | ↑ +18% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,656.60 | $444.00 – $2,484.90 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,000.60 | $591.77 – $4,250.85 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,453.20 | $471.66 – $2,931.65 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,242.00 | $310.50 – $1,863.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,521.20 | $598.76 – $3,571.70 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,647.20 | $452.01 – $3,309.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,501.60 | $337.86 – $1,689.30 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,242.00 | $503.10 – $1,863.00 |