Cidofovir injection at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$27,738.00
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.
$46,230.00
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.
$344.93 with UPMC Health Plan vs $9,062.73 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 | $344.93 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $511.27 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $546.29 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $546.29 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $546.29 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $546.29 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $560.38 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $573.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $579.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $589.94 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $589.99 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $589.99 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $600.92 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $643.07 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $671.94 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,182.61 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,326.31 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,855.08 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2,009.67 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,019.98 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,061.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,061.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2,061.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,061.20 | ↓ -93% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,576.50 | ↓ -91% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,607.10 | ↓ -87% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $4,122.40 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4,380.05 | ↓ -84% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4,380.05 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $4,448.88 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $4,511.22 | ↓ -84% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $4,740.76 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $5,958.04 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $6,041.80 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $9,062.73 | ↓ -67% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Cidofovir injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,980.80 | $344.93 – $1,313.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $118.20 | $20.28 – $874.06 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $118.20 | $29.60 – $671.94 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,428.80 | $344.93 – $985.37 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $118.20 | $540.83 – $874.06 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $118.20 | $540.83 – $874.06 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $118.20 | $373.87 – $1,070.80 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $118.20 | $540.83 – $546.29 |