Topotecan 4 mg/4 ml (1 mg/ml) intravenous solution at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$144.80
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.
$181.00
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.
$0.91 with UPMC Health Plan vs $149.98 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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| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.91 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1.60 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2.54 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2.54 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2.54 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2.83 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3.13 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $47.28 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $56.24 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $59.34 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $64.47 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $64.98 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $65.83 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $65.83 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $68.40 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $68.40 | ↓ -53% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $85.50 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $85.50 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $102.60 | ↓ -29% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $111.10 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $111.99 | ↓ -23% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $119.70 | ↓ -17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $136.80 | ↓ -6% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $136.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Humana | Commercial | $145.35 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $148.80 | ↑ +3% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $149.98 | ↑ +4% |
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Topotecan 4 mg/4 ml (1 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $141.00 | $1.10 – $14.45 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $702.00 | $0.91 – $936.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $141.00 | $2.22 – $92.76 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $144.60 | $1.09 – $3.99 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $96.00 | $1.60 – $76.37 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $141.00 | $1.10 – $2.80 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $84.60 | $0.91 – $74.99 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $141.00 | $1.10 – $2.80 |