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Aldesleukin injection at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
not published by hospital
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.
$8,017.43
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.
$1,299.67 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $7,215.69 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.
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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,299.67 | — |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2,236.86 | — |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2,441.31 | — |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2,485.40 | — |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2,725.93 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,784.45 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,806.10 | — |
| Bravo | Medicare | $2,806.10 | — |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $3,046.62 | — |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,206.97 | — |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $3,206.97 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,229.62 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,321.40 | — |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,527.67 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,607.84 | — |
| InterGroup | PPO | $4,008.72 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,325.40 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $4,409.59 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4,419.13 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,448.50 | — |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $4,810.46 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $5,440.15 | — |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5,566.32 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5,725.36 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5,725.36 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5,725.36 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5,831.39 | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $6,013.07 | — |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $6,413.94 | — |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $6,413.94 | — |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $6,574.29 | — |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $7,215.69 | — |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $7,215.69 | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Aldesleukin injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $8,184.00 | $552.16 – $5,831.39 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,184.00 | $530.72 – $5,831.39 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $8,184.00 | $482.33 – $5,725.36 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | not published | $1,312.05 – $6,814.82 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $6,538.20 | $1,634.55 – $9,807.30 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $3,330.60 | $1,286.53 – $5,724.83 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $6,538.20 | $1,961.46 – $9,807.30 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $2,895.09 – $6,814.82 |