healthcosts.net
Insert cath pleura without image at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$2,585.40
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$4,309.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$477.16 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,662.65 with Humana — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $477.16 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $791.18 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,062.38 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,085.87 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,180.67 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,206.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,206.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,381.05 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,422.82 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,561.50 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,637.42 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,723.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,723.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,849.61 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,898.98 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,953.05 | ↓ -24% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,953.23 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,989.40 | ↓ -23% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,113.56 | ↓ -18% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,369.95 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,845.65 | ↑ +10% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,016.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,447.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $3,447.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $3,662.65 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Insert cath pleura without image at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $833.40 | $472.26 – $1,989.40 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $697.20 | $324.20 – $1,953.23 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,890.80 | $477.16 – $4,095.30 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,977.80 | $744.45 – $3,970.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,829.00 | $791.18 – $4,007.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,020.00 | $229.50 – $1,147.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $2,977.80 | $791.18 – $3,970.40 |