Fibrinolytic plasminogen 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

$129.60

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.

$216.00

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.

$16.09 with UPMC Health Plan vs $198.72 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.

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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 Medicare $16.09 ↓ -88%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $16.98 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $17.16 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $17.16 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $17.63 ↓ -86%
Aetna of PA Medicare $18.05 ↓ -86%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $18.56 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare $18.57 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $18.57 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare $18.91 ↓ -85%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $20.28 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $23.13 ↓ -82%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $24.28 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $24.69 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $26.59 ↓ -79%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $33.06 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $36.87 ↓ -72%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $58.61 ↓ -55%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $77.76 ↓ -40%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $78.50 ↓ -39%
Aetna EBR FI $84.24 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $84.67 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $86.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $86.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $86.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $86.40 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $108.00 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $113.57 ↓ -12%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $117.75 ↓ -9%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $123.68 ↓ -5%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $151.20 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $165.64 ↑ +28%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $172.80 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $183.60 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $183.60 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $198.72 ↑ +53%

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Fibrinolytic plasminogen at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $165.00 $15.97 – $36.87
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $159.60 $14.84 – $36.87
UPMC Bedford Everett $224.40 $6.20 – $336.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $87.00 $11.41 – $123.25
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $87.00 $15.60 – $123.25
UPMC East Monroeville $141.00 $15.60 – $188.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $193.80 $15.60 – $36.53
UPMC Northwest Seneca $124.20 $15.59 – $18.57

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