Aldesleukin injection at UPMC Magee

300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$8,184.00

Cash price

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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.

$13,640.00

Gross charge

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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.

$372.71 with UPMC Work Partners vs $7,829.62 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $372.71 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $568.40 ↓ -93%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $584.64 ↓ -93%
Aetna EBR FI $633.36 ↓ -92%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $636.61 ↓ -92%
Cigna Commercial $649.60 ↓ -92%
Aetna EBR ASO $649.60 ↓ -92%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $649.60 ↓ -92%
Cigna New Business ASO $649.60 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $706.44 ↓ -91%
InterGroup PPO $812.00 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $893.20 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $893.20 ↓ -89%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1,136.80 ↓ -86%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $1,299.20 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $1,312.05 ↓ -84%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,380.40 ↓ -83%
Humana Commercial $1,380.40 ↓ -83%
Multiplan PPO $1,494.08 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $3,843.55 ↓ -53%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $3,897.41 ↓ -52%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $4,961.45 ↓ -39%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $5,147.37 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $5,219.73 ↓ -36%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $5,438.03 ↓ -34%
Aetna of PA Medicare $5,566.32 ↓ -32%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $5,619.34 ↓ -31%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $5,724.83 ↓ -30%
United Healthcare Medicare $5,725.36 ↓ -30%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $5,725.36 ↓ -30%
Aetna Medicare $5,831.39 ↓ -29%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $7,829.62 ↓ -4%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Aldesleukin injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $8,184.00 $1,312.05 – $5,831.39
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $8,184.00 $1,312.05 – $5,831.39
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $8,184.00 $1,285.69 – $5,831.39
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh not published $1,299.67 – $5,831.39
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $1,312.05 – $5,831.39
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $3,330.60 $641.57 – $8,482.02
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $3,330.60 $936.60 – $5,725.36
UPMC Hanover Hanover $3,330.60 $5,248.25 – $8,482.02

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