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Crotalidae poly immune fab 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.

$7,102.31

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.

$1,154.65 with UPMC Health Plan vs $11,566.33 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $1,154.65
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $1,524.42
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1,828.71
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1,828.71
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $1,828.71
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $1,876.63
Aetna of PA Medicare $1,920.16
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $1,975.02
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1,975.02
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,975.02
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1,981.54
Aetna Medicare $2,011.59
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $2,162.65
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $2,201.72
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2,249.32
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2,262.64
Cigna New Business ASO $2,414.79
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $2,466.63
Bravo Medicare $2,485.81
Aetna EBR FI $2,698.88
Cigna Commercial $2,840.92
Aetna EBR ASO $2,840.92
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $2,951.16
Coventry/First Health Commercial $3,125.02
InterGroup PPO $3,551.16
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $4,261.39
Private Health Care Systems PPO $5,326.73
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $5,681.85
American Healthcare Group Commercial $5,681.85
National Provider Network PPO $5,823.89
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $6,392.08
Health Payors Organization Commercial $6,392.08
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $8,397.19
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $8,635.81
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $11,246.26
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $11,566.33
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Crotalidae poly immune fab at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $6,805.20 $1,154.65 – $9,479.20
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $1,154.65 – $6,036.96
UPMC Muncy Muncy $14,450.40 $1,828.71 – $21,675.60
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $14,450.40 $1,828.71 – $21,675.60
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $6,069.00 $1,828.71 – $9,103.50
UPMC Northwest Seneca not published $1,154.65 – $6,036.96

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