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Carmustine 100 mg intravenous powder for 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

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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.

$5,016.70

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.

$150.56 with UPMC Health Plan vs $4,515.03 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 $150.56
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $198.78
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $238.46
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $238.46
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $238.46
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $244.71
Aetna of PA Medicare $250.38
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $257.54
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $257.54
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $257.54
Aetna Medicare $262.31
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $281.42
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $293.30
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $315.00
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $639.86
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $658.05
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $856.96
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $881.35
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1,399.66
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $1,527.59
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $1,555.18
Cigna New Business ASO $1,705.68
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,742.30
Bravo Medicare $1,755.85
Aetna EBR FI $1,906.35
Cigna Commercial $2,006.68
Aetna EBR ASO $2,006.68
Coventry/First Health Commercial $2,207.35
InterGroup PPO $2,508.35
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $3,010.02
Private Health Care Systems PPO $3,762.53
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $4,013.36
American Healthcare Group Commercial $4,013.36
National Provider Network PPO $4,113.69
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $4,515.03
Health Payors Organization Commercial $4,515.03
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Carmustine 100 mg intravenous powder for solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,713.80 $150.56 – $723.35
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $2,713.80 $150.56 – $3,844.55
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $2,713.80 $238.46 – $3,844.55
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $150.56 – $4,264.19
UPMC Muncy Muncy $21,846.60 $238.46 – $32,769.90
UPMC Northwest Seneca $287.40 $150.56 – $407.15
UPMC Somerset Somerset $1,582.20 $57.58 – $238.46
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $21,846.60 $238.46 – $32,769.90

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