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Drug assay vedolizumab at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$129.60
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.
$216.00
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.
$21.60 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $194.40 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.
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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $21.60 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $32.15 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $32.62 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $38.12 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $38.57 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $39.58 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $40.50 | ↓ -69% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $41.66 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $41.66 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $41.66 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $42.43 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $43.68 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $51.56 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $60.26 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $65.77 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $66.96 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $69.05 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $73.44 | ↓ -43% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $75.60 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $82.08 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $86.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $86.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $95.04 | ↓ -27% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $108.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $116.53 | ↓ -10% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $118.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $129.60 | ↑ +0% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $162.00 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $172.80 | ↑ +33% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $172.80 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $177.12 | ↑ +37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $180.32 | ↑ +39% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $194.40 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $194.40 | ↑ +50% |
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Drug assay vedolizumab at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $93.00 | $21.80 – $131.75 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $210.00 | $21.80 – $297.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $298.80 | $21.80 – $423.30 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $431.40 | $30.12 – $575.20 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $126.60 | $34.98 – $179.35 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $83.40 | $21.38 – $104.25 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $431.40 | $30.12 – $647.10 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $431.40 | $30.12 – $575.20 |