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Treatment inhalation pressurized/nonpressurized acute airway obstruction at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$71.40
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.
$119.00
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.
$24.90 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $209.42 with PA Health & Wellness — 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 | $24.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $29.75 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $29.99 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $32.61 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $33.32 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $33.32 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $37.90 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $45.22 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $47.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $47.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $59.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $65.04 | ↓ -9% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $65.45 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $72.07 | ↑ +1% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $81.29 | ↑ +14% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $83.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $87.11 | ↑ +22% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $95.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $95.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $96.52 | ↑ +35% |
| Humana | Commercial | $101.15 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $167.42 | ↑ +134% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $174.22 | ↑ +144% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $203.61 | ↑ +185% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $209.42 | ↑ +193% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Treatment inhalation pressurized/nonpressurized acute airway obstruction at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $272.40 | $24.67 – $408.60 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $71.40 | $24.90 – $209.42 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $337.20 | $24.90 – $477.70 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $286.80 | $31.20 – $166.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $74.40 | $31.00 – $209.42 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $418.20 | $24.42 – $522.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $346.40 | $2.65 – $149.53 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $286.80 | $37.90 – $209.40 |