Hydration IV infusion each additional hour at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$194.40
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.
$324.00
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.
$9.90 with UPMC Health Plan vs $265.00 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 | $9.90 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $10.35 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $12.51 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $13.35 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $13.57 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $14.05 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $15.34 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $24.76 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $34.36 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $44.11 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $44.94 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $46.19 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $46.19 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $47.07 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $47.50 | ↓ -76% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $47.51 | ↓ -76% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $47.51 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $47.51 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $48.39 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $48.39 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $75.10 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $91.13 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $98.94 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $99.45 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $106.92 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $113.72 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $123.12 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $123.77 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $126.36 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $126.36 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $126.36 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $126.36 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $129.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $129.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $129.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $132.50 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $133.19 | ↓ -31% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $162.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $226.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $259.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $265.00 | ↑ +36% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Hydration IV infusion each additional hour at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $220.80 | $9.00 – $294.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $84.60 | $9.45 – $126.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $108.00 | $11.43 – $153.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $87.60 | $9.45 – $56.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $108.00 | $11.43 – $153.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $147.60 | $9.90 – $54.83 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $105.00 | $9.90 – $46.19 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $108.00 | $11.43 – $70.53 |