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Acetylcysteine non-comp unit at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$42.80
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.
$53.50
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.
$5.46 with UPMC Health Plan vs $71.32 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 | $5.46 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $7.92 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $8.65 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $10.65 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $13.31 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $14.86 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $16.21 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $16.51 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $18.11 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $18.20 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $18.49 | ↓ -57% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $18.64 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $20.23 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $21.30 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $21.30 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $23.43 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $26.62 | ↓ -38% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $26.62 | ↓ -38% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $29.29 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $31.95 | ↓ -25% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $39.94 | ↓ -7% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $42.60 | ↓ -0% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $42.60 | ↓ -0% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $43.66 | ↑ +2% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $47.92 | ↑ +12% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $47.92 | ↑ +12% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $51.78 | ↑ +21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $53.25 | ↑ +24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $69.35 | ↑ +62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $71.32 | ↑ +67% |
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Acetylcysteine non-comp unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $438.00 | $0.56 – $18.37 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $81.60 | $0.54 – $18.37 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $107.20 | $0.74 – $107.95 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $81.60 | $4.69 – $18.00 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $92.80 | $1.91 – $11.47 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $107.20 | $0.71 – $113.90 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $92.80 | $0.67 – $11.47 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $92.80 | $3.44 – $11.47 |