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Plmt ureteral stent prq at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$8,248.80
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.
$13,748.00
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.
$788.45 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $11,685.80 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 | $788.45 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,495.84 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,059.46 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,282.03 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,758.25 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,839.01 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,056.27 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,452.59 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,464.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,550.91 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,551.23 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,617.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,766.95 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,849.44 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,849.44 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $5,224.24 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $5,499.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5,499.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $5,516.50 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $6,743.39 | ↓ -18% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $7,561.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $9,623.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $10,998.40 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $10,998.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $11,685.80 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Plmt ureteral stent prq at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $8,743.80 | $788.45 – $12,387.05 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $8,248.80 | $781.01 – $12,373.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $10,998.60 | $788.45 – $15,581.35 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $7,729.80 | $773.11 – $9,662.25 |