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Erythromycin in ns IV syringe 5 mg/ml (neo/ped) - cnr at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$28.60
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.
$35.75
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.
$8.75 with Aetna vs $93.73 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | $8.75 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $9.77 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $10.66 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $10.85 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $11.90 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $12.05 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $12.16 | ↓ -57% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $12.25 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $13.30 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $14.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $14.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $15.40 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $17.50 | ↓ -39% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $17.50 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $21.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $26.25 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $28.00 | ↓ -2% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $28.00 | ↓ -2% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $28.70 | ↑ +0% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $31.50 | ↑ +10% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $31.50 | ↑ +10% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $34.27 | ↑ +20% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $35.25 | ↑ +23% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $40.80 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $45.90 | ↑ +60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $47.21 | ↑ +65% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $64.62 | ↑ +126% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $64.62 | ↑ +126% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $64.62 | ↑ +126% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $79.48 | ↑ +178% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $93.73 | ↑ +228% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Erythromycin in ns IV syringe 5 mg/ml (neo/ped) - cnr at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $109.20 | $12.16 – $64.62 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $109.20 | $12.16 – $130.05 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $116.80 | $12.16 – $124.10 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $109.20 | $11.92 – $130.05 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $460.00 | $64.62 – $517.50 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $120.00 | $11.92 – $93.73 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $460.00 | $64.62 – $517.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $460.00 | $64.62 – $517.50 |