Metered dose inhaler drug at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$3,034.20
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.
$5,057.00
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.
$2.99 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $79.32 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 | $2.99 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $10.64 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $12.42 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $15.84 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $16.44 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $17.25 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $24.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $26.91 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $27.05 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $27.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $27.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $27.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $27.60 | ↓ -99% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $34.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $34.50 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $34.50 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $37.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $37.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $48.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $51.18 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $51.18 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $52.87 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $52.87 | ↓ -98% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $55.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Commercial | $58.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $58.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $63.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $79.32 | ↓ -97% |
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Metered dose inhaler drug at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,667.20 | $3.13 – $8.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,034.20 | $2.86 – $15.44 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,034.20 | $2.72 – $17.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $2,961.60 | $2.44 – $13.06 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,149.60 | $2.72 – $84.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,111.20 | $2.72 – $137.70 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,718.40 | $2.72 – $122.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,932.80 | $2.72 – $3.27 |