Lidocaine (pf) 10 mg/ml (1 %) injection solution at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$0.45
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.
$0.75
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.
$0.14 with Aetna vs $0.69 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.
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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| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $0.14 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $0.15 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $0.17 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $0.19 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.26 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $0.27 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $0.29 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $0.29 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $0.30 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $0.30 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $0.30 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $0.30 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $0.33 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $0.38 | ↓ -16% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $0.38 | ↓ -16% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $0.38 | ↓ -16% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $0.41 | ↓ -9% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.41 | ↓ -9% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $0.53 | ↑ +18% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $0.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $0.64 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $0.64 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $0.69 | ↑ +53% |
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Lidocaine (pf) 10 mg/ml (1 %) injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $9.23 | $0.01 – $0.01 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $24.20 | $0.03 – $7.68 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $86.40 | $0.04 – $0.19 |
| WellSpan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital | York PA 17403 | $91.20 | $1.75 – $19.20 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $9.47 | $0.08 – $0.08 |
| WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital | Waynesboro | $24.20 | $1.05 – $19.20 |
| WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital | Lewisburg | $5.20 | $0.02 – $0.19 |
| WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital | Gettysburg | $91.20 | $0.70 – $19.20 |