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Perq art m-thrombect &/nfs at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$26,160.00
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.
$43,600.00
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.
$561.43 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $37,060.00 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 | $561.43 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,065.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,250.02 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,624.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,674.12 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,176.28 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,348.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $10,900.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $10,987.20 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $11,946.40 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $12,208.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $12,208.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $16,568.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $17,440.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $17,440.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $21,385.80 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $21,800.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $23,980.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $30,520.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $34,880.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $34,880.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $37,060.00 | ↑ +42% |
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Perq art m-thrombect &/nfs at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $12,590.40 | $556.13 – $18,885.60 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $21,964.80 | $561.43 – $31,116.80 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $17,446.80 | $550.51 – $21,808.50 |