IV Fluids (each additional hour) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$86.40
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.
$144.00
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.
$9.90 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $234.77 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $9.90 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $9.90 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $11.70 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $13.35 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $14.01 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $14.24 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $15.34 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $24.76 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $34.36 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $41.17 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $45.12 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $46.19 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $47.50 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $47.51 | ↓ -45% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $47.51 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $48.39 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $51.84 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $56.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $56.45 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $57.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $57.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $57.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $57.60 | ↓ -33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $72.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $75.10 | ↓ -13% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $100.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $115.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $115.25 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $116.01 | ↑ +34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $116.87 | ↑ +35% |
| Humana | Commercial | $122.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $122.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $132.48 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $154.35 | ↑ +79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $156.52 | ↑ +81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $234.77 | ↑ +172% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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IV Fluids (each additional hour) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $214.80 | $9.90 – $48.39 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $298.20 | $9.90 – $48.39 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $134.40 | $9.90 – $48.39 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $118.20 | $9.90 – $48.39 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $220.80 | $9.00 – $294.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $84.60 | $9.45 – $126.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $108.00 | $11.43 – $153.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $87.60 | $9.45 – $56.00 |