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Afamelanotide implant, 1 mg at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$6,529.20
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.
$10,882.00
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.
$1,364.81 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $9,793.80 with Health Payors Organization — 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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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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,364.81 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,453.63 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $3,020.54 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $3,036.08 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3,090.59 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,178.89 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,178.89 | ↓ -51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,178.89 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3,237.76 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3,313.57 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3,373.42 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3,699.88 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3,779.32 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,808.70 | ↓ -42% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $3,808.70 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,883.40 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,993.75 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $4,135.16 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,352.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $4,352.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4,788.08 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,896.90 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $5,200.99 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $5,349.01 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $5,441.00 | ↓ -17% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $5,985.10 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $6,529.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $8,161.50 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $8,705.60 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $8,705.60 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $8,923.24 | ↑ +37% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $9,793.80 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $9,793.80 | ↑ +50% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Afamelanotide implant, 1 mg at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $140,689.80 | $1,377.80 – $9,804.75 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $140,689.80 | $1,377.80 – $199,310.55 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $140,689.80 | $1,350.12 – $199,310.55 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $6,529.20 | $2,669.39 – $9,249.70 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $6,227.40 | $2,814.78 – $9,341.10 |