Dextrose 5 % and lactated ringers intravenous solution at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$118.20
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.
$197.00
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.
$1.69 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $122.36 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.
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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1.69 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $5.66 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $5.74 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $7.59 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $7.69 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $8.68 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $11.54 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $23.94 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $30.52 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $46.55 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $47.88 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $51.87 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $52.14 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $53.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $53.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $53.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $53.20 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $57.85 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $66.50 | ↓ -44% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $66.50 | ↓ -44% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $73.15 | ↓ -38% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $73.15 | ↓ -38% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $93.10 | ↓ -21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $106.40 | ↓ -10% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $113.05 | ↓ -4% |
| Humana | Commercial | $113.05 | ↓ -4% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $122.36 | ↑ +4% |
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Dextrose 5 % and lactated ringers intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $71.00 | $1.67 – $1.67 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $118.20 | $1.69 – $1.69 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $118.20 | $1.69 – $1.69 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $140.00 | $1.69 – $1.69 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $118.20 | $1.65 – $1.65 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $74.40 | $0.35 – $18.15 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $90.40 | $4.64 – $101.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $6.60 | $3.05 – $8.80 |