Bivalirudin at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$5,170.80
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.
$8,618.00
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.
$0.11 with UPMC Health Plan vs $22.31 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 | $0.11 | ↓ -100% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $0.17 | ↓ -100% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.17 | ↓ -100% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $0.17 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $0.17 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $0.21 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.25 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $0.26 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $3.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $3.87 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $4.93 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $7.74 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $8.38 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $8.43 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $8.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $8.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $8.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $8.60 | ↓ -100% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $10.75 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $10.75 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $10.95 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $11.11 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $14.67 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $14.87 | ↓ -100% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $15.05 | ↓ -100% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $17.20 | ↓ -100% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $18.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial | $18.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $19.78 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $22.31 | ↓ -100% |
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Bivalirudin at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,991.00 | $0.11 – $3.23 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,904.40 | $0.11 – $3.27 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,203.40 | $0.11 – $3.27 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,109.20 | $0.11 – $16.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $585.00 | $0.17 – $51.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $181.80 | $0.17 – $242.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $585.00 | $0.17 – $51.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,416.40 | $0.11 – $17.60 |