Injection, siltuximab 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

$543.60

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.

$906.00

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.

$69.00 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $471.47 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $69.00 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $104.71 ↓ -81%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $109.70 ↓ -80%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $155.20 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $165.83 ↓ -69%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $165.83 ↓ -69%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $165.83 ↓ -69%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $165.83 ↓ -69%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $170.11 ↓ -69%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $172.08 ↓ -68%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $172.83 ↓ -68%
Aetna of PA Medicare $174.12 ↓ -68%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $175.78 ↓ -68%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $179.08 ↓ -67%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $179.10 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Medicare $179.10 ↓ -67%
Aetna Medicare $182.41 ↓ -66%
Aetna EBR FI $186.42 ↓ -66%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $187.38 ↓ -66%
Aetna EBR ASO $191.20 ↓ -65%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $191.20 ↓ -65%
Cigna New Business ASO $191.20 ↓ -65%
Cigna Commercial $191.20 ↓ -65%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $203.97 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $231.45 ↓ -57%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $234.69 ↓ -57%
InterGroup PPO $239.00 ↓ -56%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $309.96 ↓ -43%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $314.31 ↓ -42%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $334.60 ↓ -38%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $382.40 ↓ -30%
Humana Commercial $406.30 ↓ -25%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $406.30 ↓ -25%
Multiplan PPO $439.76 ↓ -19%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $471.47 ↓ -13%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Injection, siltuximab at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $471.00 $69.00 – $182.41
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $15,318.00 $69.00 – $182.41
UPMC Bedford Everett $467.40 $59.83 – $701.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $3,603.00 $164.17 – $1,275.85
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $3,603.00 $113.80 – $1,275.85
UPMC Hanover Hanover $3,603.00 $164.17 – $265.33
UPMC Lititz Lititz $3,603.00 $164.17 – $265.33
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $627.60 $69.00 – $182.41

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