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Mopath procedure level 7 at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$8,476.80
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.
$14,128.00
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.
$41.58 with Aetna vs $5,029.07 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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $41.58 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $45.21 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $46.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $46.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $62.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $66.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $66.00 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $90.75 | ↓ -99% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $115.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $132.00 | ↓ -98% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $132.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Commercial | $140.25 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $244.24 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $279.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $297.02 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $305.48 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $305.51 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $311.17 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $549.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,080.08 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,877.54 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,514.54 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,126.09 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,186.71 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $5,029.07 | ↓ -41% |
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Mopath procedure level 7 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $15,543.60 | $56.10 – $1,080.08 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $8,476.80 | $46.03 – $1,069.89 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,476.80 | $29.70 – $1,080.08 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $6,588.60 | $23.40 – $279.57 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $8,476.80 | $66.00 – $305.51 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $8,366.40 | $23.58 – $279.57 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $8,008.80 | $60.48 – $305.48 |