Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at UPMC East

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

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

$22.80

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.

$38.00

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.

$0.36 with UPMC Work Partners vs $5.93 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.

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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 Work Partners Workers Comp $0.36 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $0.53 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $0.75 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $0.77 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare All Business $0.77 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $0.77 ↓ -97%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.83 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $0.83 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $0.83 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $0.83 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $0.90 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1.02 ↓ -96%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1.05 ↓ -95%
Aetna EBR FI $1.14 ↓ -95%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $1.15 ↓ -95%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $1.17 ↓ -95%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $1.17 ↓ -95%
Cigna New Business ASO $1.17 ↓ -95%
Cigna Commercial $1.20 ↓ -95%
Aetna EBR ASO $1.20 ↓ -95%
Cigna EBR $1.20 ↓ -95%
InterGroup PPO $1.50 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1.50 ↓ -93%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $2.10 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $2.22 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $2.23 ↓ -90%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $2.40 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $2.97 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $2.98 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $5.93 ↓ -74%

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Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $43.80 $0.53 – $2.31
UPMC Bedford Everett $31.20 $0.53 – $4.50
UPMC Cole Coudersport $17.40 $0.67 – $23.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $81.60 $0.53 – $2.10
UPMC Northwest Seneca $28.20 $0.53 – $1.98
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $33.60 $0.53 – $1.94
UPMC Jameson New Castle $22.80 $0.53 – $0.84
UPMC Kane Kane $37.80 $0.67 – $1.27

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