Buprenorphine X-ray over 100 mg at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$7,886.40
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.
$13,144.00
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.
$1,110.51 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $10,515.20 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,110.51 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1,273.17 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,572.02 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $1,931.81 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $1,931.81 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $2,016.42 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,016.42 | ↓ -74% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2,016.42 | ↓ -74% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,016.42 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,021.86 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $2,059.97 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $2,117.24 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $2,117.24 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,157.57 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,177.53 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,177.73 | ↓ -72% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,177.73 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2,177.73 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,189.76 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $2,218.06 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,218.06 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,480.20 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,197.79 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,214.18 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,282.50 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,304.69 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $4,613.54 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $4,994.72 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $5,021.01 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $5,126.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $5,126.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $5,126.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $5,257.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5,257.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $5,257.60 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $6,572.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $8,565.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $9,200.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $10,515.20 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Buprenorphine X-ray over 100 mg at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $5,427.00 | $1,100.04 – $7,236.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $7,360.20 | $727.52 – $11,040.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $806.40 | $184.13 – $3,226.27 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $806.40 | $268.80 – $2,480.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $5,965.60 | $1,100.04 – $3,805.99 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $6,604.80 | $1,273.17 – $2,177.73 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $806.40 | $1,996.26 – $3,226.27 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $6,615.60 | $1,273.17 – $2,803.53 |