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Cilastatin sodium injection at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$223.80
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.
$373.00
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.
$6.34 with Aetna vs $96.82 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $6.34 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $6.47 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $7.07 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $7.72 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $7.86 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $8.80 | ↓ -96% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $8.87 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $9.40 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $9.63 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $10.14 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $10.14 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $10.25 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $10.25 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $10.25 | ↓ -95% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $11.15 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $12.60 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $12.68 | ↓ -94% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $12.68 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $15.21 | ↓ -93% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $19.01 | ↓ -92% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $20.28 | ↓ -91% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $20.28 | ↓ -91% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $20.79 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $22.82 | ↓ -90% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $22.82 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $24.70 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $70.29 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $72.29 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $94.14 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $96.82 | ↓ -57% |
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Cilastatin sodium injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $626.40 | $6.47 – $182.75 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,249.80 | $6.47 – $887.40 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $660.80 | $6.34 – $24.94 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $626.40 | $10.25 – $887.40 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $19.80 | $4.04 – $24.45 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $6.34 – $64.11 |