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Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$59.60
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.
$74.50
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.
$1.97 with UPMC Health Plan vs $66.60 with Multiplan — 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 | $1.97 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $3.11 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3.11 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $3.11 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3.83 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $4.48 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $18.50 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $20.65 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $22.53 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $22.94 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $25.16 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $25.61 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $25.70 | ↓ -57% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $25.90 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $28.12 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $29.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $29.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $32.56 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $37.00 | ↓ -38% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $37.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $37.87 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $38.95 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $44.40 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $50.72 | ↓ -15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $52.16 | ↓ -12% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $55.50 | ↓ -7% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $59.20 | ↓ -1% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $59.20 | ↓ -1% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $60.68 | ↑ +2% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $66.60 | ↑ +12% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $66.60 | ↑ +12% |
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Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $67.80 | $1.97 – $85.85 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $60.60 | $1.97 – $85.85 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $75.80 | $1.97 – $79.90 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $60.60 | $3.11 – $85.85 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $26.80 | $3.11 – $29.70 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $76.40 | $1.97 – $80.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $26.80 | $3.11 – $29.70 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $26.80 | $3.11 – $29.70 |