Vancomycin hcl injection at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$64.80
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.
$108.00
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.
$1.86 with United Healthcare vs $112.89 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | All Business | $1.86 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $1.86 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2.68 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $9.45 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $14.64 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $19.75 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $27.73 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $30.02 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $30.18 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $30.81 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $30.81 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $30.81 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $31.60 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $31.60 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | EBR | $31.60 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $38.75 | ↓ -40% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $39.50 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $39.50 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $42.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $42.36 | ↓ -35% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $43.45 | ↓ -33% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $43.45 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $55.30 | ↓ -15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $56.44 | ↓ -13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $56.74 | ↓ -12% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $63.20 | ↓ -2% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $112.89 | ↑ +74% |
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Vancomycin hcl injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $42.60 | $2.68 – $14.50 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $31.20 | $2.68 – $46.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $88.80 | $2.68 – $16.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $99.00 | $3.18 – $6.29 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $42.00 | $37.63 – $37.63 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $54.60 | $1.86 – $36.95 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $25.20 | $2.68 – $14.75 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $12.00 | $3.07 – $12.33 |