Carbamazepine total therapeutic drug level at UPMC Magee

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

$99.00

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.

$165.00

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.

$13.64 with UPMC Health Plan vs $151.80 with Multiplan — 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 Health Plan Managed Medicare $13.64 ↓ -86%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $14.40 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $14.95 ↓ -85%
Aetna of PA Medicare $15.30 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $15.73 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $15.74 ↓ -84%
United Healthcare Medicare $15.74 ↓ -84%
Aetna Medicare $16.03 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $20.35 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $20.35 ↓ -79%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $24.05 ↓ -76%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $26.23 ↓ -74%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $27.44 ↓ -72%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $28.41 ↓ -71%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $28.80 ↓ -71%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $29.27 ↓ -70%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $31.53 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $45.16 ↓ -54%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $59.40 ↓ -40%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $60.48 ↓ -39%
Aetna EBR FI $64.35 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $64.68 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $66.00 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $66.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $66.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $66.00 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $82.50 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $90.10 ↓ -9%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $90.72 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $95.30 ↓ -4%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $115.50 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $127.62 ↑ +29%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $132.00 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $140.25 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $140.25 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $151.80 ↑ +53%

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Carbamazepine total therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $189.60 $12.15 – $28.14
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $349.80 $13.54 – $28.41
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $645.60 $14.40 – $28.80
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $137.40 $12.58 – $28.88
UPMC Altoona Altoona $208.80 $14.40 – $278.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $83.40 $5.26 – $125.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $103.80 $14.42 – $147.05
UPMC Cole Coudersport $100.80 $9.47 – $134.40

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