Tocilizumab 162 mg/0.9 ml subcutaneous pen injector at UPMC East

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

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

$5,467.80

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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.

$9,113.00

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.

$2.63 with UPMC Work Partners vs $54.71 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 $2.63 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $3.60 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $5.71 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $5.71 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $5.71 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $5.71 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $5.73 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $5.83 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare All Business $5.97 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $5.97 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $6.00 ↓ -100%
Aetna of PA Medicare $6.00 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Medicare $6.11 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $6.17 ↓ -100%
Cigna Medicare $6.17 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $6.17 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $6.17 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $6.28 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $6.28 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $7.02 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $7.09 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $7.10 ↓ -100%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $7.72 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR FI $8.36 ↓ -100%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $8.40 ↓ -100%
Cigna New Business ASO $8.58 ↓ -100%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $8.58 ↓ -100%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $8.58 ↓ -100%
Cigna EBR $8.80 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR ASO $8.80 ↓ -100%
Cigna Commercial $8.80 ↓ -100%
InterGroup PPO $11.00 ↓ -100%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $15.40 ↓ -100%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $17.60 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $20.43 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $20.53 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $27.35 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $27.50 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $54.71 ↓ -99%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Tocilizumab 162 mg/0.9 ml subcutaneous pen injector at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $5,029.20 $3.60 – $16.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $5,334.60 $2.06 – $17.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $783.00 $5.65 – $112.20
UPMC Cole Coudersport $6,612.60 $5.71 – $1,763.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $783.00 $5.65 – $112.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $4,636.20 $3.60 – $7.03
UPMC Northwest Seneca $5,467.80 $3.60 – $6.17
UPMC Hanover Hanover $783.00 $5.65 – $9.14

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