Penicillin g benzathine 1,200,000 unit/2 ml intramuscular syringe at UPMC East

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

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

$526.20

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.

$877.00

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.

$8.73 with UPMC Work Partners vs $76.13 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 $8.73 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $9.87 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $18.95 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $24.82 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $25.22 ↓ -95%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $25.62 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare All Business $26.82 ↓ -95%
Aetna EBR FI $27.74 ↓ -95%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $27.89 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $28.42 ↓ -95%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $28.47 ↓ -95%
Cigna New Business ASO $28.47 ↓ -95%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $28.47 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $28.57 ↓ -95%
Cigna EBR $29.20 ↓ -94%
Cigna Commercial $29.20 ↓ -94%
Aetna EBR ASO $29.20 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $30.01 ↓ -94%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $30.01 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $30.01 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $30.01 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $30.09 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $30.66 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $31.51 ↓ -94%
Aetna of PA Medicare $31.51 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Medicare $32.11 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $32.41 ↓ -94%
Cigna Medicare $32.41 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $32.41 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $32.41 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $33.01 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare $33.01 ↓ -94%
InterGroup PPO $36.50 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $36.91 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $38.06 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $38.26 ↓ -93%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $51.10 ↓ -90%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $58.40 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $76.13 ↓ -86%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Penicillin g benzathine 1,200,000 unit/2 ml intramuscular syringe at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $373.80 $9.29 – $32.11
UPMC Bedford Everett $156.60 $7.55 – $31.51
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $96.00 $18.91 – $182.55
UPMC Cole Coudersport $948.00 $24.67 – $71.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $96.00 $16.28 – $182.55
UPMC Hamot Erie $274.80 $9.78 – $32.41
UPMC Northwest Seneca $96.00 $18.95 – $32.41
UPMC Hanover Hanover $96.00 $29.71 – $182.55

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