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Amphotericin b lipid complex at UPMC Mercy

1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

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Cash price

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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.

$200.75

Gross charge

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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.

$6.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $180.68 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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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $6.50
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $8.59
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.30
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $10.30
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $10.30
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $10.57
Aetna of PA Medicare $10.81
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $11.12
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $11.12
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $11.12
Aetna Medicare $11.33
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $12.67
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $44.09
Aetna Neighborhood Network $56.01
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $61.13
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $62.23
Cigna New Business ASO $68.25
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $69.72
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $70.26
Bravo Medicare $70.26
Aetna EBR FI $76.28
Cigna Commercial $80.30
Aetna EBR ASO $80.30
Coventry/First Health Commercial $88.33
InterGroup PPO $100.38
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $120.45
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $125.46
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $129.02
Private Health Care Systems PPO $150.56
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $160.60
American Healthcare Group Commercial $160.60
National Provider Network PPO $164.62
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $168.02
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $172.80
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $180.68
Health Payors Organization Commercial $180.68
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Amphotericin b lipid complex at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $272.40 $6.50 – $385.90
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $87.60 $6.50 – $124.10
UPMC Northwest Seneca not published $6.50 – $170.64

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