Fondaparinux sodium at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$1,081.20
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.
$1,802.00
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.
$0.46 with UPMC Health Plan vs $106.04 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 | $0.46 | ↓ -100% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.72 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $0.72 | ↓ -100% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $0.72 | ↓ -100% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $0.72 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $0.89 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1.19 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $14.04 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $15.52 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $17.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $28.08 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $29.15 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $30.42 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $30.58 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $31.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $31.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $31.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $31.20 | ↓ -97% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $39.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $39.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $52.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $52.78 | ↓ -95% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $54.60 | ↓ -95% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $62.40 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Commercial | $66.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $66.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $69.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $70.69 | ↓ -93% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $71.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $106.04 | ↓ -90% |
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Fondaparinux sodium at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $540.60 | $0.46 – $24.06 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,003.20 | $0.46 – $27.82 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,206.60 | $0.46 – $26.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $769.20 | $0.46 – $23.02 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $60.60 | $0.72 – $15.21 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $222.60 | $0.46 – $26.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $87.60 | $0.72 – $26.50 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $87.60 | $0.72 – $26.50 |