Injection glatiramer acetate at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$1,206.60
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.
$2,011.00
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.
$48.50 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $555.32 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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| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $48.50 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison MedPLUS | $50.92 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $55.77 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $63.87 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $72.00 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $167.76 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $170.92 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $171.57 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $171.57 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $175.68 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $175.68 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $179.02 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $180.68 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $180.69 | ↓ -85% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $180.69 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $180.69 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $184.04 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $184.04 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $186.90 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $187.43 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $202.92 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $203.99 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $207.33 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $208.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $208.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $208.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $208.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $213.60 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $213.60 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | EBR | $213.60 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $261.93 | ↓ -78% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $267.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $277.66 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $279.10 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $293.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $293.70 | ↓ -76% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $373.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $427.20 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $555.32 | ↓ -54% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection glatiramer acetate at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $811.20 | $48.50 – $811.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,550.40 | $48.50 – $180.69 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $509.40 | $72.58 – $209.14 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,356.00 | $53.35 – $180.69 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $805.60 | $72.00 – $545.44 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,279.20 | $55.77 – $184.04 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,207.20 | $50.92 – $184.04 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $775.80 | $48.50 – $184.04 |