Pertuzumab 30 mg/ml desensitization at UPMC Magee

300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508

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

$11,263.80

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.

$18,773.00

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.

$8.24 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $56.29 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.

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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 $8.24 ↓ -100%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $8.26 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $10.74 ↓ -100%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $12.96 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR FI $14.04 ↓ -100%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $14.11 ↓ -100%
Cigna Commercial $14.40 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR ASO $14.40 ↓ -100%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $14.40 ↓ -100%
Cigna New Business ASO $14.40 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $15.93 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $17.02 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $17.02 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $17.02 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $17.02 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $17.46 ↓ -100%
Aetna of PA Medicare $17.87 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $17.90 ↓ -100%
InterGroup PPO $18.00 ↓ -100%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $18.04 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $18.38 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Medicare $18.38 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $18.38 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $18.72 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $20.93 ↓ -100%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $25.20 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $27.63 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $28.02 ↓ -100%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $28.80 ↓ -100%
Humana Commercial $30.60 ↓ -100%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $30.60 ↓ -100%
Multiplan PPO $33.12 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $37.01 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $37.53 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $56.29 ↓ -100%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Pertuzumab 30 mg/ml desensitization at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $18,274.80 $8.24 – $18.72
UPMC Altoona Altoona $10,054.80 $8.16 – $34.40
UPMC Cole Coudersport $13,307.40 $17.02 – $17,743.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $12,802.80 $8.16 – $23.22
UPMC Muncy Muncy $22,539.60 $17.02 – $18.72
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $22,539.60 $17.02 – $18.72

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