Parenteral 50% dextrose solu at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$165.60
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.
$207.00
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.
$7.62 with UPMC Work Partners vs $207.40 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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $7.62 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $15.94 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $21.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $22.38 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $24.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $24.35 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $24.86 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $24.86 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $24.86 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $25.50 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | EBR | $25.50 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $25.50 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $25.50 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $26.89 | ↓ -84% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $31.88 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $31.88 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $35.06 | ↓ -79% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $35.06 | ↓ -79% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $44.62 | ↓ -73% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $51.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $77.43 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $77.83 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $98.67 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $103.70 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $104.23 | ↓ -37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $119.74 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $207.40 | ↑ +25% |
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Parenteral 50% dextrose solu at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $9.20 | $4.28 – $98.67 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $225.60 | $70.50 – $253.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $87.20 | $26.64 – $26.64 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $211.20 | $69.13 – $119.40 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $141.60 | $67.89 – $98.67 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $141.60 | $17.27 – $98.67 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $228.60 | $19.00 – $98.67 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $216.00 | $19.00 – $98.67 |