Oxaliplatin 5 mg/ml desensitization at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$46.80
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.
$78.00
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.
$0.05 with UPMC Health Plan vs $66.30 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 | $0.05 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $0.09 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $0.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $17.71 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $21.57 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $27.07 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $29.41 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $29.64 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $30.03 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $30.03 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $31.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $31.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $35.37 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $35.66 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $39.00 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $39.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $46.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $47.37 | ↑ +1% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $47.75 | ↑ +2% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $54.60 | ↑ +17% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $62.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $62.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $66.30 | ↑ +42% |
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Oxaliplatin 5 mg/ml desensitization at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $53.80 | $0.05 – $53.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $298.80 | $0.08 – $199.20 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $58.80 | $0.05 – $78.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $40.80 | $0.05 – $24.31 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $38.40 | $0.05 – $23.88 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $59.40 | $0.05 – $17.55 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,965.00 | $0.08 – $0.09 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $58.80 | $0.05 – $17.71 |