Cefazolin 10 mg/10 ml (dilution #2) IV desensitization - cnr 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

$189.60

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.

$316.00

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.

$0.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $18.34 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 Health Plan Managed Medicaid $0.50 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.80 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $0.80 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $0.80 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $0.80 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $0.89 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $0.97 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $0.98 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $1.07 ↓ -99%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $1.44 ↓ -99%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1.84 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $2.68 ↓ -99%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $2.88 ↓ -98%
Aetna EBR FI $3.12 ↓ -98%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $3.14 ↓ -98%
Cigna New Business ASO $3.20 ↓ -98%
Cigna Commercial $3.20 ↓ -98%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $3.20 ↓ -98%
Aetna EBR ASO $3.20 ↓ -98%
InterGroup PPO $4.00 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.00 ↓ -98%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $5.60 ↓ -97%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $6.40 ↓ -97%
Humana Commercial $6.80 ↓ -96%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $6.80 ↓ -96%
Multiplan PPO $7.36 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $9.00 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $9.13 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $12.05 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $12.22 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $18.34 ↓ -90%

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Cefazolin 10 mg/10 ml (dilution #2) IV desensitization - cnr at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $15.40 $0.50 – $2.66
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $189.60 $0.50 – $2.68
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $78.60 $0.50 – $2.68
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $16.40 $0.50 – $2.68
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $19.65 $0.80 – $2.63
UPMC Altoona Altoona $19.20 $0.50 – $8.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $10.20 $0.50 – $9.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $8.40 $0.14 – $1.07

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