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Arsenic trioxide 2 mg/ml intravenous solution 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

$204.00

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.

$340.00

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.

$5.15 with UPMC Health Plan vs $306.00 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 $5.15 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $6.79 ↓ -97%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $8.15 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $8.15 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $8.15 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $8.36 ↓ -96%
Aetna of PA Medicare $8.56 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $8.80 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $8.80 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $8.80 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare $8.96 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $10.03 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $18.31 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $48.57 ↓ -76%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $94.86 ↓ -54%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $103.53 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $104.93 ↓ -49%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $105.40 ↓ -48%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $107.92 ↓ -47%
Cigna New Business ASO $115.60 ↓ -43%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $118.08 ↓ -42%
Bravo Medicare $119.00 ↓ -42%
Aetna EBR FI $129.20 ↓ -37%
Cigna Commercial $136.00 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $136.00 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $140.54 ↓ -31%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $144.54 ↓ -29%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $149.60 ↓ -27%
InterGroup PPO $170.00 ↓ -17%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $204.00 ↑ +0%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $255.00 ↑ +25%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $272.00 ↑ +33%
American Healthcare Group Commercial $272.00 ↑ +33%
National Provider Network PPO $278.80 ↑ +37%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $306.00 ↑ +50%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $306.00 ↑ +50%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Arsenic trioxide 2 mg/ml intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $268.80 $5.15 – $380.80
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $2,689.20 $5.15 – $370.60
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $358.40 $5.15 – $380.80
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $268.80 $8.15 – $380.80
UPMC Muncy Muncy $2,751.00 $8.15 – $413.10
UPMC Northwest Seneca $292.80 $5.15 – $311.10
UPMC Somerset Somerset $35.40 $7.07 – $15.75
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $2,751.00 $8.15 – $413.10

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