Cisplatin 1 mg/ml desensitization at UPMC East

2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$781.80

Cash price

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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.

$1,303.00

Gross charge

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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.

$1.45 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,042.40 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $1.45 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $2.29 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2.29 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $2.29 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $2.29 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare All Business $2.69 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $2.69 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2.82 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $4.69 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $140.34 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $155.84 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $205.01 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $206.06 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $274.55 ↓ -65%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $275.97 ↓ -65%
Aetna Medicare $325.75 ↓ -58%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $457.35 ↓ -42%
Aetna EBR FI $495.14 ↓ -37%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $497.75 ↓ -36%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $508.17 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $508.17 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $508.17 ↓ -35%
Cigna EBR $521.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $521.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $521.20 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $549.10 ↓ -30%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $651.50 ↓ -17%
InterGroup PPO $651.50 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $912.10 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,042.40 ↑ +33%

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Cisplatin 1 mg/ml desensitization at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $446.40 $1.45 – $446.40
UPMC Cole Coudersport $12.00 $0.55 – $2.29
UPMC Hamot Erie $565.60 $1.45 – $11.01
UPMC Northwest Seneca $700.00 $1.45 – $183.03
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $592.80 $1.45 – $179.73
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $749.40 $1.45 – $140.34
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $543.60 $1.45 – $140.34
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $556.00 $1.45 – $139.02

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