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Ferumoxytol 510 mg/17 ml (30 mg/ml) intravenous solution 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.

$985.43

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.

$0.20 with UPMC Health Plan vs $886.89 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.

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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 $0.20
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $0.27
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.32
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $0.32
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $0.32
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $0.33
Aetna of PA Medicare $0.34
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $0.35
Aetna Medicare $0.35
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $0.35
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $0.35
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $0.40
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $0.41
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $1.64
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $3.07
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $3.15
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $4.11
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $4.23
Aetna Neighborhood Network $274.93
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $300.06
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $305.48
Cigna New Business ASO $335.05
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $342.24
Bravo Medicare $344.90
Aetna EBR FI $374.46
Cigna Commercial $394.17
Aetna EBR ASO $394.17
Coventry/First Health Commercial $433.59
InterGroup PPO $492.71
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $591.26
Private Health Care Systems PPO $739.07
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $788.34
American Healthcare Group Commercial $788.34
National Provider Network PPO $808.05
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $886.89
Health Payors Organization Commercial $886.89
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Ferumoxytol 510 mg/17 ml (30 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $2,289.60 $0.20 – $5.95
UPMC Muncy Muncy $3,963.60 $0.32 – $10.80
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $3,963.60 $0.32 – $10.80
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $3,963.60 $0.32 – $10.80

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