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Azithromycin 500 mg intravenous solution at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$104.80
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.
$131.00
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.
$1.29 with UPMC Health Plan vs $164.06 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 | $1.29 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1.71 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1.90 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2.04 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2.04 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2.04 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2.11 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2.32 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2.37 | ↓ -98% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $2.39 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2.50 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3.00 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3.02 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3.41 | ↓ -97% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3.41 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $4.06 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $4.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $5.12 | ↓ -95% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $5.46 | ↓ -95% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $5.46 | ↓ -95% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $5.59 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $6.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $6.14 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $41.86 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $119.11 | ↑ +14% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $122.49 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $159.52 | ↑ +52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $164.06 | ↑ +57% |
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Azithromycin 500 mg intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,063.80 | $1.29 – $171.70 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,063.80 | $1.29 – $1,507.05 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $612.80 | $1.29 – $42.26 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $1,063.80 | $2.04 – $1,507.05 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $186.40 | $2.04 – $209.70 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $319.20 | $1.29 – $108.64 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $6.00 | $0.34 – $41.44 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $186.40 | $2.04 – $209.70 |