Procainamide 100 mg/ml injection (wrapper) 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

$225.00

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.

$375.00

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.

$19.97 with UPMC Work Partners vs $362.47 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $19.97 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $24.98 ↓ -89%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $31.32 ↓ -86%
Aetna EBR FI $33.93 ↓ -85%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $34.10 ↓ -85%
Cigna New Business ASO $34.80 ↓ -85%
Aetna EBR ASO $34.80 ↓ -85%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $34.80 ↓ -85%
Cigna Commercial $34.80 ↓ -85%
InterGroup PPO $43.50 ↓ -81%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $60.90 ↓ -73%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $69.60 ↓ -69%
Humana Commercial $73.95 ↓ -67%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $73.95 ↓ -67%
Multiplan PPO $80.04 ↓ -64%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $83.78 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $84.95 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $112.20 ↓ -50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $113.78 ↓ -49%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $169.78 ↓ -25%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $170.66 ↓ -24%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $186.07 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $275.80 ↑ +23%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $294.69 ↑ +31%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $294.69 ↑ +31%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $294.69 ↑ +31%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $294.69 ↑ +31%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $302.29 ↑ +34%
Aetna of PA Medicare $309.42 ↑ +38%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $312.37 ↑ +39%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $318.24 ↑ +41%
United Healthcare Medicare $318.27 ↑ +41%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $318.27 ↑ +41%
Aetna Medicare $324.16 ↑ +44%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $362.47 ↑ +61%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Procainamide 100 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $222.40 $24.74 – $324.16
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $225.00 $24.98 – $324.16
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $225.00 $24.98 – $324.16
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $111.60 $24.98 – $324.16
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $225.00 $24.47 – $324.16
UPMC Altoona Altoona $216.00 $24.74 – $315.32
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $36.00 $1.23 – $471.50
UPMC Cole Coudersport $106.20 $2.49 – $294.69

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