5% dextrose with potassium at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$85.20
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.
$142.00
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.
$1.80 with Aetna vs $122.07 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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| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1.80 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2.29 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3.60 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3.90 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3.92 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $4.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $4.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $4.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4.00 | ↓ -95% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $5.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5.33 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $5.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $5.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7.00 | ↓ -92% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $8.00 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Commercial | $8.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $8.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $9.20 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $34.34 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $52.58 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $59.92 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $60.76 | ↓ -29% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $80.25 | ↓ -6% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $81.23 | ↓ -5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $81.38 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $122.07 | ↑ +43% |
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5% dextrose with potassium at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $75.80 | $34.02 – $41.52 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $104.40 | $34.34 – $76.31 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $85.20 | $34.34 – $85.02 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $101.60 | $34.34 – $64.52 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $85.20 | $33.65 – $33.65 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1.60 | $0.74 – $52.58 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $81.60 | $25.50 – $91.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $204.00 | $30.50 – $204.00 |