5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$148.80
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.
$186.00
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.
$22.25 with UPMC Work Partners vs $148.80 with Private Health Care Systems — 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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $22.25 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $25.11 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $37.61 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $37.80 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $46.50 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $50.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $50.63 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $63.24 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $65.29 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $68.04 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $70.68 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $71.05 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $72.54 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $72.54 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $72.54 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $74.40 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $74.40 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $74.40 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | EBR | $74.40 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $82.57 | ↓ -45% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $93.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $93.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $100.73 | ↓ -32% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $102.30 | ↓ -31% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $102.30 | ↓ -31% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $130.20 | ↓ -13% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $148.80 | ↑ +0% |
Visitor-reported prices
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5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $79.20 | $24.87 – $79.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $74.20 | $23.19 – $83.47 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $100.80 | $9.01 – $9.01 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $74.40 | $33.58 – $82.33 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $70.20 | $32.97 – $68.04 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $42.00 | $8.02 – $68.04 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $96.60 | $8.87 – $68.04 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $94.40 | $8.82 – $68.04 |