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Sigmoidoscopy and biopsy at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$1,864.80
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.
$3,108.00
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.
$70.04 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3,281.43 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.
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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $70.04 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $70.04 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $94.42 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $99.40 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $108.51 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $385.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $550.23 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $750.48 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $769.82 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $783.22 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $851.59 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $870.24 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $870.24 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $912.67 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $938.66 | ↓ -50% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $938.75 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $956.13 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,181.04 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,225.07 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,243.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,243.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,592.54 | ↓ -15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,640.71 | ↓ -12% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,132.85 | ↑ +14% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,175.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,486.40 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $2,486.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,641.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,281.43 | ↑ +76% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Sigmoidoscopy and biopsy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,788.60 | $70.04 – $2,533.85 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,550.40 | $70.04 – $2,325.60 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,235.80 | $70.04 – $4,584.05 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $3,156.60 | $70.04 – $4,208.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,558.20 | $70.04 – $2,207.45 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $3,816.80 | $70.04 – $4,293.90 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,156.60 | $70.04 – $4,208.80 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | not published | $70.04 – $869.21 |