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Transcath biopsy at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$3,075.00
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.
$5,125.00
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.
$125.40 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,669.06 with Aetna — 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 | $125.40 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $125.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $169.06 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $177.97 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $194.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $436.76 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $562.86 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $972.43 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,264.11 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,291.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,302.35 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,404.25 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,418.78 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,435.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,435.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,693.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,947.50 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,050.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,050.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,604.71 | ↓ -15% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,587.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,100.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $4,100.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,356.25 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4,449.70 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5,411.37 | ↑ +76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5,565.47 | ↑ +81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5,565.99 | ↑ +81% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5,669.06 | ↑ +84% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Transcath biopsy at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $9,409.80 | $125.40 – $13,330.55 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,978.40 | $125.40 – $5,411.37 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,898.60 | $125.40 – $5,669.06 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $6,966.60 | $125.40 – $8,708.25 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $816.60 | $125.40 – $1,088.80 |