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Skin Biopsy at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$987.00
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.
$1,645.00
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.
$35.45 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,398.25 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $35.45 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $35.45 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $47.80 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $50.31 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $54.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $59.37 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $116.66 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $132.19 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $171.84 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $177.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $230.15 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $349.06 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $354.08 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $411.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $414.54 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $450.73 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $460.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $460.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $625.10 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $658.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $658.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $822.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,151.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,316.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $1,316.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,398.25 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Skin Biopsy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $823.80 | $35.45 – $1,167.05 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $823.80 | $35.45 – $1,263.16 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $639.00 | $35.45 – $958.50 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,055.40 | $35.45 – $1,495.15 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $575.40 | $40.93 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $613.80 | $32.23 – $818.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $381.60 | $33.84 – $572.40 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $357.60 | $31.88 – $2,094.25 |