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Place gastrostomy tube perc at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$3,809.40
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.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$6,349.00
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.
$194.19 with UPMC Health Plan vs $11,527.18 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $194.19 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $194.19 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $261.81 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $275.60 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $300.86 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $409.22 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,561.50 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,599.95 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,670.96 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,739.63 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,777.72 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,777.72 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,898.98 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,932.87 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,953.05 | ↓ -49% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,953.23 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,989.40 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,412.62 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,539.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,539.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $4,303.51 | ↑ +13% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4,444.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $5,079.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $5,079.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $5,396.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $5,594.35 | ↑ +47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $5,763.59 | ↑ +51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $7,492.41 | ↑ +97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $11,527.18 | ↑ +203% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,101.00 | $194.19 – $5,809.75 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,587.40 | $194.19 – $5,381.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $6,954.00 | $194.19 – $9,851.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,735.00 | $194.19 – $5,291.25 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $7,713.60 | $194.19 – $9,642.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $402.60 | $194.19 – $1,670.96 |