Administration chemotherapy IV infusion each addl sequential infusion diff substance/drug >1 hr at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$451.20
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.
$752.00
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.
$63.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $984.10 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $63.50 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $67.85 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $67.85 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $69.60 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $71.24 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $73.27 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $73.28 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $73.28 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $74.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $80.18 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $91.47 | ↓ -80% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $96.02 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $97.60 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $105.12 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $128.83 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $144.02 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $261.74 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $270.72 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $293.28 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $294.78 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $300.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $300.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $300.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $300.80 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $376.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $404.35 | ↓ -10% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $483.10 | ↑ +7% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $489.86 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $526.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $601.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $639.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $639.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $646.97 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $656.07 | ↑ +45% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $691.84 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $984.10 | ↑ +118% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Administration chemotherapy IV infusion each addl sequential infusion diff substance/drug >1 hr at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $336.00 | $56.56 – $156.63 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $322.20 | $63.05 – $149.80 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $554.40 | $67.85 – $182.13 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $397.80 | $58.58 – $144.02 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $402.00 | $61.68 – $536.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $197.40 | $45.07 – $279.65 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $271.80 | $64.76 – $362.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $197.40 | $65.80 – $279.65 |