Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$19,696.80
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.
$32,828.00
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.
$297.20 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $26,262.40 with Private Health Care Systems — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $297.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,320.45 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,327.22 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1,336.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,768.36 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,777.52 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $2,067.91 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $2,067.91 | ↓ -90% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2,116.32 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,116.32 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $2,116.32 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,116.32 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,122.03 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $2,162.03 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $2,222.14 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $2,222.14 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,264.46 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,285.41 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2,285.63 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,285.63 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,285.63 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,327.95 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $2,327.95 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,345.32 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,603.08 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,536.72 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3,926.23 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $11,522.63 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $12,474.64 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $12,540.30 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $12,802.92 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $12,802.92 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $12,802.92 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | EBR | $13,131.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $13,131.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $13,131.20 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $16,414.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $22,979.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $26,262.40 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $6,097.60 | $294.40 – $6,097.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $6,332.80 | $763.57 – $7,124.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,186.20 | $270.85 – $3,386.11 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,864.20 | $500.35 – $2,116.32 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,186.20 | $395.40 – $2,603.08 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $4,949.60 | $294.40 – $2,285.63 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,186.20 | $2,095.16 – $3,386.11 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $5,934.00 | $1,157.65 – $2,285.63 |