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Tc-99m tilmanocept diag at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$72.60
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.
$121.00
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.
$30.25 with Aetna vs $7,411.96 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $30.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $30.49 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $33.15 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $33.88 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $33.88 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $45.98 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $48.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $48.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $59.35 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $60.50 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $66.55 | ↓ -8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $84.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $96.80 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $96.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $102.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $961.01 | ↑ +1224% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2,767.29 | ↑ +3712% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2,781.48 | ↑ +3731% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3,705.98 | ↑ +5005% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3,725.18 | ↑ +5031% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $7,411.96 | ↑ +10109% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Tc-99m tilmanocept diag at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $73.20 | $30.50 – $961.01 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $9,358.20 | $961.01 – $13,257.45 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $72.60 | $30.25 – $2,470.67 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,043.40 | $608.65 – $1,304.25 |