IV Push Injection (each additional drug) at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$144.60
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.
$241.00
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.
$14.31 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $314.14 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 | $14.31 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $14.31 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $16.91 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $19.29 | ↓ -87% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $20.25 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $20.59 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $22.17 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $35.27 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $41.17 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $45.12 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $45.97 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $46.19 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $47.50 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $47.51 | ↓ -67% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $47.51 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $48.39 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $81.72 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $88.53 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $88.98 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $90.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $90.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $90.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $90.80 | ↓ -37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $102.42 | ↓ -29% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $113.50 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $154.21 | ↑ +7% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $156.37 | ↑ +8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $158.23 | ↑ +9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $158.90 | ↑ +10% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $181.60 | ↑ +26% |
| Humana | Commercial | $192.95 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $192.95 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $206.53 | ↑ +43% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $208.84 | ↑ +44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $209.43 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $314.14 | ↑ +117% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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IV Push Injection (each additional drug) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $203.40 | $14.31 – $48.39 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $298.20 | $14.31 – $48.39 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $438.00 | $14.31 – $48.40 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $238.80 | $14.31 – $48.39 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $108.60 | $13.01 – $144.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $125.40 | $13.66 – $188.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $108.00 | $16.52 – $153.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $111.00 | $12.47 – $51.80 |