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Antithymocyte globuln rabbit 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.

$1,886.35

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.

$467.95 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,834.02 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.

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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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $467.95
Aetna Neighborhood Network $526.29
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $574.39
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $584.77
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $631.00
Cigna New Business ASO $641.36
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $655.13
Bravo Medicare $660.22
Aetna EBR FI $716.81
Cigna Commercial $754.54
Aetna EBR ASO $754.54
Coventry/First Health Commercial $829.99
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $833.07
InterGroup PPO $943.17
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $999.37
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $999.37
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $999.37
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $1,025.55
Aetna of PA Medicare $1,049.34
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,078.02
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $1,079.32
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1,079.32
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,079.32
Aetna Medicare $1,099.31
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $1,131.81
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,229.22
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $1,331.51
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $1,369.34
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,414.76
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $1,509.08
American Healthcare Group Commercial $1,509.08
National Provider Network PPO $1,546.81
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $1,697.71
Health Payors Organization Commercial $1,697.71
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $1,783.27
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $1,834.02
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Antithymocyte globuln rabbit at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $4,183.80 $472.41 – $5,927.05
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $4,183.80 $472.41 – $5,927.05
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $4,183.80 $462.92 – $5,927.05
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $472.41 – $1,603.40
UPMC Somerset Somerset $639.60 $358.92 – $999.37
UPMC Northwest Seneca not published $631.00 – $1,603.40

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