Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$618.60
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.
$1,031.00
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.
$33.51 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,065.91 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 Medicaid | $33.51 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $49.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $53.08 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $53.08 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $53.08 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $53.08 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $54.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $55.73 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $56.26 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $57.32 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $57.33 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $57.33 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $58.39 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $61.59 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $65.28 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $155.99 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $219.86 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $344.88 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $373.62 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $375.54 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $383.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $383.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $383.20 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $383.20 | ↓ -38% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $479.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $523.25 | ↓ -15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $530.59 | ↓ -14% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $670.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $700.75 | ↑ +13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $710.60 | ↑ +15% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $766.40 | ↑ +24% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $814.30 | ↑ +32% |
| Humana | Commercial | $814.30 | ↑ +32% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $881.36 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,065.91 | ↑ +72% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Albumin (human), 5%, 250 ml at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $466.40 | $33.51 – $154.52 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $810.00 | $33.51 – $155.99 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $609.00 | $33.51 – $155.99 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $749.60 | $33.51 – $155.99 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $609.00 | $53.08 – $152.86 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,314.40 | $33.51 – $658.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $474.40 | $19.15 – $533.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $63.00 | $29.11 – $84.00 |