Administration chemotherapy IV infusion each additional hour at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$210.00
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.
$350.00
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.
$31.11 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $457.24 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $31.11 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $31.11 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $36.76 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $41.94 | ↓ -80% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $44.02 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $44.75 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $48.19 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $59.85 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $63.50 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $66.92 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $69.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $71.24 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $73.27 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $73.28 | ↓ -65% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $73.28 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $74.64 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $126.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $136.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $137.20 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $140.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $140.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $140.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $140.00 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $163.41 | ↓ -22% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $175.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $224.46 | ↑ +7% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $227.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $245.00 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $252.44 | ↑ +20% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $280.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $297.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $297.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $300.60 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $304.83 | ↑ +45% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $322.00 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $457.24 | ↑ +118% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Administration chemotherapy IV infusion each additional hour at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $214.80 | $31.11 – $74.64 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $298.20 | $31.11 – $74.64 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $554.40 | $31.11 – $84.33 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $684.60 | $31.11 – $74.64 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $376.20 | $28.28 – $501.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $147.60 | $24.48 – $221.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $197.40 | $35.92 – $279.65 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $193.20 | $29.69 – $257.60 |