Tobramycin in ns IV syringe 4 mg/ml (neo/ped) - cnr 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

$1,439.40

Cash price

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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.

$2,399.00

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.

$0.89 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $86.42 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $0.89 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $1.50 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $2.37 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $2.37 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2.37 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $2.37 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2.92 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $2.95 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $3.09 ↓ -100%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $11.70 ↓ -99%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $12.65 ↓ -99%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $14.92 ↓ -99%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $23.40 ↓ -98%
Aetna EBR FI $25.35 ↓ -98%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $25.48 ↓ -98%
Aetna EBR ASO $26.00 ↓ -98%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $26.00 ↓ -98%
Cigna Commercial $26.00 ↓ -98%
Cigna New Business ASO $26.00 ↓ -98%
InterGroup PPO $32.50 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $32.50 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $42.42 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $43.02 ↓ -97%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $45.50 ↓ -97%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $52.00 ↓ -96%
Humana Commercial $55.25 ↓ -96%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $55.25 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $56.82 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $57.61 ↓ -96%
Multiplan PPO $59.80 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $86.42 ↓ -94%

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Tobramycin in ns IV syringe 4 mg/ml (neo/ped) - cnr at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $72.00 $0.93 – $12.53
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $612.00 $0.85 – $12.65
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $84.60 $0.81 – $12.65
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $116.80 $0.89 – $12.65
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $84.60 $2.37 – $12.39
UPMC Altoona Altoona $24.40 $0.81 – $24.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $49.80 $0.14 – $3.75
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD $160.08 $1.86 – $3.48

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