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815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$7,438.80
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.
$12,398.00
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.
$266.53 with UPMC Health Plan vs $14,099.76 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 | $266.53 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $266.53 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $359.33 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $378.25 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $412.93 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,097.04 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $2,364.24 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,590.86 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,124.30 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,150.80 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,240.52 | ↓ -56% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,240.82 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,300.84 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,397.05 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,471.44 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,471.44 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $4,711.24 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $4,959.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,959.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $5,263.95 | ↓ -29% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5,707.85 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $6,842.88 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $7,049.88 | ↓ -5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $8,678.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $9,164.53 | ↑ +23% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $9,918.40 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $9,918.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $10,538.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $14,099.76 | ↑ +90% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Trnscath retrv pq vasc fb w/guide at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $16,263.00 | $266.53 – $23,039.25 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $9,246.00 | $266.53 – $13,869.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $24,280.80 | $266.53 – $34,397.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $6,120.00 | $266.53 – $8,670.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $7,288.20 | $266.53 – $9,110.25 |