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Insert cath pleura with image at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$4,012.80
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.
$6,688.00
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.
$773.96 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $5,684.80 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $773.96 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,278.71 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,283.30 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,555.07 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,599.35 | ↓ -60% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,599.50 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,629.12 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,685.38 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,723.22 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,832.51 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,872.64 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,872.64 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,240.10 | ↓ -44% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,250.80 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,307.86 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,541.44 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,675.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,675.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,000.12 | ↓ -25% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $3,678.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4,615.73 | ↑ +15% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4,681.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $5,350.40 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $5,350.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $5,684.80 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Insert cath pleura with image at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,552.20 | $773.96 – $6,448.95 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,703.60 | $766.66 – $4,055.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,692.00 | $773.96 – $6,647.00 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,040.00 | $510.00 – $2,720.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,320.80 | $1,283.30 – $3,287.80 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $10,384.20 | $758.91 – $12,980.25 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,467.20 | $555.12 – $2,775.60 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,040.00 | $993.28 – $2,720.00 |