Acetylcysteine non-comp unit at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$199.20
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.
$249.00
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.
$0.74 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $211.65 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $0.74 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $5.46 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $7.92 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $8.65 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $9.61 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $10.65 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $18.37 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $68.71 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $68.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $69.26 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $86.40 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $92.02 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $92.76 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $93.87 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $94.62 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $95.86 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $95.86 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $99.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $99.60 | ↓ -50% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $124.50 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $124.50 | ↓ -38% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $136.95 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $149.40 | ↓ -25% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $174.30 | ↓ -13% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $199.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $199.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Humana | Commercial | $211.65 | ↑ +6% |
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Acetylcysteine non-comp unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $51.80 | $0.67 – $24.45 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $53.00 | $0.54 – $50.46 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $15.00 | $0.83 – $8.65 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $108.00 | $2.64 – $108.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $264.00 | $0.67 – $17.28 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $107.20 | $0.71 – $47.23 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $80.80 | $0.67 – $46.38 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $80.80 | $5.46 – $18.52 |