Azithromycin 500 mg intravenous solution at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$249.60
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.
$312.00
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.
$1.29 with UPMC Health Plan vs $325.93 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 | Managed Medicaid | $1.29 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2.04 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $2.04 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2.04 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2.04 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $2.13 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $2.13 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2.50 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3.02 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $3.53 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison MedPLUS | $3.70 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $4.06 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $37.32 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $42.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $78.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $109.51 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $118.56 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $119.18 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $121.68 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $121.68 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $121.68 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $121.69 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $122.31 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $124.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | EBR | $124.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $124.80 | ↓ -50% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $156.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $156.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $162.96 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $163.81 | ↓ -34% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $218.40 | ↓ -13% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $249.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $325.93 | ↑ +31% |
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Azithromycin 500 mg intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $20.40 | $1.29 – $41.86 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $136.00 | $1.29 – $153.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $6.00 | $0.14 – $3.67 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $7.20 | $2.04 – $9.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $6.00 | $0.20 – $69.70 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $313.60 | $1.29 – $7.08 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $319.20 | $1.29 – $108.64 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $6.00 | $2.04 – $3.67 |