Alteplase 100 mg infusion from pyxis vial at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$22,001.40
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.
$36,669.00
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$49.03 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $335.04 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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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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $49.03 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $55.31 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $59.63 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $86.76 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $88.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $93.99 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $94.45 | ↓ -100% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $94.45 | ↓ -100% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $94.45 | ↓ -100% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $94.45 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $94.47 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $96.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $96.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $96.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $96.40 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $96.89 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $99.17 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $100.12 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $102.00 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $102.01 | ↓ -100% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $102.01 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $103.24 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $103.89 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $116.17 | ↓ -99% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $120.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $164.47 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $166.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $168.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $192.80 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $195.25 | ↓ -99% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $204.85 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial | $204.85 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $220.27 | ↓ -99% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $221.72 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $223.36 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $335.04 | ↓ -98% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Alteplase 100 mg infusion from pyxis vial at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $612.00 | $48.57 – $204.13 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $39,117.00 | $49.03 – $186.38 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $5,280.00 | $12.06 – $177.50 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $5,517.60 | $37.70 – $108.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $5,280.00 | $17.60 – $177.50 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $5,280.00 | $93.51 – $177.50 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $19,391.40 | $94.45 – $150.94 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $5,280.00 | $93.51 – $177.50 |