Warde growth hormone (hgh) 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

$100.20

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.

$167.00

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.

$8.80 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $153.64 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.

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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 $8.80 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $8.80 ↓ -91%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $10.40 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $11.86 ↓ -88%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $12.45 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $12.66 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $13.63 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $15.60 ↓ -84%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $16.48 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $17.10 ↓ -83%
Aetna of PA Medicare $17.50 ↓ -83%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $18.00 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Medicare $18.00 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $18.00 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicare $18.34 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $29.18 ↓ -71%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $32.52 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $51.69 ↓ -48%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $60.12 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR FI $65.13 ↓ -35%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $65.46 ↓ -35%
Aetna EBR ASO $66.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $66.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna New Business ASO $66.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $66.80 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $69.23 ↓ -31%
InterGroup PPO $83.50 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $100.24 ↑ +0%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $103.84 ↑ +4%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $109.08 ↑ +9%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $116.90 ↑ +17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $133.60 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $141.95 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $141.95 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $146.08 ↑ +46%
Multiplan PPO $153.64 ↑ +53%

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Warde growth hormone (hgh) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $142.20 $8.80 – $32.21
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $400.80 $8.80 – $32.52
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $402.00 $8.00 – $32.52
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $100.20 $8.80 – $32.52
UPMC Altoona Altoona $198.60 $8.00 – $264.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $83.40 $6.01 – $125.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $85.20 $8.00 – $120.70
UPMC Cole Coudersport $115.20 $8.40 – $153.60

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