Azithromycin dihydrate, oral at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$239.20
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.
$299.00
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.
$0.24 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $200.77 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $0.24 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $19.88 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $21.98 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $27.59 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $29.97 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $30.21 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $30.61 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $30.61 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $31.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $31.80 | ↓ -87% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $39.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $39.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $39.76 | ↓ -83% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $43.73 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $47.70 | ↓ -80% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $55.65 | ↓ -77% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $63.60 | ↓ -73% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $63.60 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Commercial | $67.58 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $87.86 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $148.72 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $149.91 | ↓ -37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $180.97 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $199.18 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $200.77 | ↓ -16% |
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Azithromycin dihydrate, oral at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $76.40 | $5.58 – $87.86 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $334.40 | $0.22 – $129.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $235.20 | $12.62 – $128.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $150.40 | $0.22 – $34.77 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $225.60 | $102.23 – $106.32 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $150.40 | $0.22 – $100.38 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $101.60 | $8.62 – $87.86 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $85.20 | $20.82 – $64.70 |