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Albumin (human), 25%, 50ml at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$376.00
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.
$553.00
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.
$33.51 with UPMC Health Plan vs $622.88 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 | $33.51 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $53.08 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $53.08 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $53.08 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $61.59 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $65.28 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $69.25 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $77.28 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $84.35 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $85.87 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $94.18 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $96.20 | ↓ -74% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $96.95 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $105.26 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $110.80 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $110.80 | ↓ -71% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $121.88 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $138.50 | ↓ -63% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $138.50 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $158.93 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $166.20 | ↓ -56% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $207.75 | ↓ -45% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $221.60 | ↓ -41% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $221.60 | ↓ -41% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $227.14 | ↓ -40% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $249.30 | ↓ -34% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $249.30 | ↓ -34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $452.21 | ↑ +20% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $465.06 | ↑ +24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $605.64 | ↑ +61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $622.88 | ↑ +66% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Albumin (human), 25%, 50ml at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,577.40 | $33.51 – $600.10 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,577.40 | $33.51 – $1,020.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,108.20 | $33.51 – $496.40 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $1,577.40 | $53.08 – $1,117.75 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $304.00 | $53.08 – $342.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $952.80 | $33.51 – $623.90 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $99.00 | $0.34 – $157.32 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $304.00 | $53.08 – $342.00 |