Dextrose 5 % in water (d5w) intravenous solution (non-pvc) at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$75.00
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.
$93.75
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.
$1.14 with UPMC Health Plan vs $74.80 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1.14 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1.81 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1.81 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2.01 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2.22 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2.24 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $20.59 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $24.33 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $30.54 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $33.18 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $33.44 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $33.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $33.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $35.20 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $35.20 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $40.29 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $40.61 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $44.00 | ↓ -41% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $44.00 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $52.80 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $53.95 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $54.38 | ↓ -27% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $61.60 | ↓ -18% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $70.40 | ↓ -6% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $70.40 | ↓ -6% |
| Humana | Commercial | $74.80 | ↓ -0% |
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Dextrose 5 % in water (d5w) intravenous solution (non-pvc) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $57.20 | $1.14 – $20.39 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $62.00 | $1.14 – $54.90 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $29.40 | $1.66 – $4.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $121.60 | $1.14 – $20.59 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $136.80 | $1.14 – $5.25 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $80.80 | $1.14 – $27.69 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $55.40 | $1.14 – $27.19 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $55.40 | $1.14 – $20.75 |