Cefotaxime sodium injection at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$201.00
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.
$335.00
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.
$11.00 with Aetna vs $237.21 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $11.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $30.06 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $34.72 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $38.33 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $58.45 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $60.12 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $65.13 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $65.46 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $66.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $66.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $66.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $66.80 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $72.64 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $83.50 | ↓ -58% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $83.50 | ↓ -58% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $91.85 | ↓ -54% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $91.85 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $116.45 | ↓ -42% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $116.90 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $118.08 | ↓ -41% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $133.60 | ↓ -34% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $141.95 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | Commercial | $141.95 | ↓ -29% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $153.64 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $155.95 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $158.14 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $237.21 | ↑ +18% |
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Cefotaxime sodium injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $165.60 | $34.39 – $34.39 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $186.60 | $34.72 – $34.72 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $298.20 | $34.72 – $34.72 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $133.80 | $34.72 – $34.72 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $34.20 | $18.12 – $45.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $153.00 | $6.04 – $204.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $100.20 | $10.00 – $16.45 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $88.20 | $89.25 – $89.25 |