Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$79.80
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.
$133.00
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.
$0.80 with UPMC Health Plan vs $48.60 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $0.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1.26 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1.26 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $1.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1.41 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1.55 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1.56 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $9.31 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $11.88 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $13.29 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $18.63 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $20.18 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $20.29 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $20.70 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $20.70 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $20.70 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $20.70 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $23.86 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $24.19 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $25.88 | ↓ -68% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $25.88 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $31.95 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $32.40 | ↓ -59% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $36.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $41.40 | ↓ -48% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $43.99 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Commercial | $43.99 | ↓ -45% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $47.61 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $48.60 | ↓ -39% |
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Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $31.20 | $0.80 – $13.16 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $76.20 | $0.80 – $13.29 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $76.20 | $0.80 – $13.29 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $78.80 | $0.80 – $13.29 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $76.20 | $1.26 – $13.02 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $9.60 | $0.80 – $13.16 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $38.40 | $0.80 – $35.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $10.80 | $1.26 – $5.60 |