Mayo lacosamide therapeutic drug level at UPMC Magee

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$88.20

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.

$147.00

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.

$15.31 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $140.84 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 $15.31 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $24.34 ↓ -72%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $25.37 ↓ -71%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $26.46 ↓ -70%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $26.79 ↓ -70%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $27.81 ↓ -68%
Aetna of PA Medicare $28.47 ↓ -68%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $29.28 ↓ -67%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $29.28 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Medicare $29.28 ↓ -67%
Aetna Medicare $29.82 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $32.60 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $48.90 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $51.36 ↓ -42%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $52.92 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $57.33 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $57.62 ↓ -35%
Aetna EBR ASO $58.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $58.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $58.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $58.80 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $68.79 ↓ -22%
InterGroup PPO $73.50 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $77.03 ↓ -13%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $80.85 ↓ -8%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $80.85 ↓ -8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $102.90 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $117.60 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $124.95 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $124.95 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $135.24 ↑ +53%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $140.84 ↑ +60%

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Mayo lacosamide therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $129.60 $15.17 – $29.82
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $72.00 $15.31 – $31.15
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $210.00 $15.31 – $77.59
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $298.80 $15.31 – $29.82
UPMC Altoona Altoona $175.20 $15.17 – $233.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $88.20 $9.78 – $132.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $69.60 $14.91 – $98.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $69.60 $21.67 – $140.84

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