5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$58.60
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.
$73.25
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.
$18.31 with Aetna vs $68.04 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $18.31 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $20.44 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $22.30 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $22.71 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $24.87 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $24.91 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $25.44 | ↓ -57% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $25.64 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $27.84 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $29.30 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $29.30 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $32.23 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $36.62 | ↓ -38% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $36.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $36.81 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $37.86 | ↓ -35% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $40.29 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $43.95 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $49.30 | ↓ -16% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $50.70 | ↓ -13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $53.73 | ↓ -8% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $54.94 | ↓ -6% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $58.60 | ↑ +0% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $58.60 | ↑ +0% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $60.06 | ↑ +2% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $65.92 | ↑ +12% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $65.92 | ↑ +12% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $68.04 | ↑ +16% |
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5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $96.60 | $8.87 – $68.04 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $96.60 | $25.11 – $98.73 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $96.60 | $25.11 – $110.01 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $115.20 | $25.11 – $83.49 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $96.60 | $24.60 – $24.60 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $79.20 | $24.87 – $79.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $74.20 | $23.19 – $83.47 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $148.80 | $22.25 – $148.80 |