Injection glatiramer acetate at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$805.60
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.
$1,007.00
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.
$72.00 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $719.95 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $72.00 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $155.08 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $171.63 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $175.68 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $180.69 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $180.69 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $180.69 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $184.04 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $234.20 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $269.29 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $271.45 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $293.91 | ↓ -64% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $296.45 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $319.32 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $321.86 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $326.10 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $326.10 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $338.80 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $338.80 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $360.66 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $363.54 | ↓ -55% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $423.50 | ↓ -47% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $465.85 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $475.93 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $508.20 | ↓ -37% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $545.44 | ↓ -32% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $592.90 | ↓ -26% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $677.60 | ↓ -16% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $677.60 | ↓ -16% |
| Humana | Commercial | $719.95 | ↓ -11% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection glatiramer acetate at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $811.20 | $48.50 – $811.20 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,206.60 | $48.50 – $427.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,550.40 | $48.50 – $180.69 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $509.40 | $72.58 – $209.14 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,356.00 | $53.35 – $180.69 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,279.20 | $55.77 – $184.04 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,207.20 | $50.92 – $184.04 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $775.80 | $48.50 – $184.04 |