Vancomycin peak therapeutic drug level at UPMC Magee
300 Halket Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1952311508
$93.60
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.
$156.00
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.
$12.67 with UPMC Health Plan vs $135.24 with Multiplan — 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 Medicare | $12.67 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $13.38 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $13.89 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $14.22 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $14.62 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $14.62 | ↓ -84% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $14.62 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $14.89 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $19.68 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $20.59 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $20.59 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $24.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $26.20 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $27.76 | ↓ -70% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $29.14 | ↓ -69% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $29.62 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $31.90 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $41.64 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $52.92 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $55.77 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $57.33 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $57.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $58.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $58.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $58.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $58.80 | ↓ -37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $67.59 | ↓ -28% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $73.50 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $83.65 | ↓ -11% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $87.87 | ↓ -6% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $102.90 | ↑ +10% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $117.60 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $117.68 | ↑ +26% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $124.95 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $124.95 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $135.24 | ↑ +44% |
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Vancomycin peak therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $159.00 | $11.29 – $25.95 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $304.80 | $12.58 – $26.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $155.40 | $11.69 – $29.22 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $122.40 | $13.38 – $163.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $66.60 | $4.89 – $99.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $97.20 | $13.40 – $137.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $93.00 | $8.80 – $124.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $97.20 | $13.40 – $137.70 |