Mayo mycophenolic acid therapeutic drug level at UPMC Magee

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

$145.80

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.

$243.00

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.

$16.89 with UPMC Health Plan vs $223.56 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.

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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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $16.89 ↓ -88%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $17.84 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $18.33 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $18.52 ↓ -87%
Aetna of PA Medicare $18.95 ↓ -87%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $19.49 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare $19.49 ↓ -87%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $19.49 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare $19.86 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $21.67 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $21.67 ↓ -85%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $25.61 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $29.14 ↓ -80%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $29.22 ↓ -80%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $30.67 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $31.17 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $33.57 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $39.03 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $58.54 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $61.50 ↓ -58%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $64.29 ↓ -56%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $82.36 ↓ -44%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $87.48 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $94.77 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $95.26 ↓ -35%
Cigna Commercial $97.20 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $97.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $97.20 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $97.20 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $117.54 ↓ -19%
InterGroup PPO $121.50 ↓ -17%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $170.10 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $194.40 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $206.55 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $206.55 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO $223.56 ↑ +53%

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Mayo mycophenolic acid therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $200.40 $15.05 – $22.66
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $711.60 $16.77 – $22.66
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $739.20 $17.84 – $30.67
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $187.20 $15.58 – $30.75
UPMC Altoona Altoona $169.20 $17.84 – $225.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $108.00 $6.51 – $162.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $46.20 $10.55 – $65.45
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $46.20 $15.40 – $117.54

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