Epinephrine hcl (pf) 1 mg/ml (1 ml) injection solution 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

$2.40

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.

$4.00

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.

$0.54 with Aetna vs $3.45 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
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $0.54 ↓ -78%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $0.67 ↓ -72%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $0.69 ↓ -71%
Aetna Medicare $0.75 ↓ -69%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1.05 ↓ -56%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $1.06 ↓ -56%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1.06 ↓ -56%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1.06 ↓ -56%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $1.06 ↓ -56%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1.08 ↓ -55%
Aetna EBR FI $1.17 ↓ -51%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $1.18 ↓ -51%
Cigna New Business ASO $1.20 ↓ -50%
Aetna EBR ASO $1.20 ↓ -50%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $1.20 ↓ -50%
Cigna Commercial $1.20 ↓ -50%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1.30 ↓ -46%
InterGroup PPO $1.50 ↓ -38%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $1.50 ↓ -38%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1.50 ↓ -38%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $2.10 ↓ -13%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $2.23 ↓ -7%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $2.23 ↓ -7%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $2.30 ↓ -4%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $2.30 ↓ -4%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $2.40 ↑ +0%
Humana Commercial $2.55 ↑ +6%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $2.55 ↑ +6%
Multiplan PPO $2.76 ↑ +15%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $3.45 ↑ +44%

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Epinephrine hcl (pf) 1 mg/ml (1 ml) injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $3.00 $0.67 – $1.06
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1.80 $0.67 – $1.06
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $2.40 $0.67 – $1.06
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $1.80 $0.67 – $1.06
UPMC Bedford Everett $2.40 $0.67 – $3.60
UPMC East Monroeville $3.00 $0.60 – $4.00
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $1.80 $0.67 – $1.06
UPMC Muncy Muncy $6.60 $1.06 – $1.16

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