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Fludarabine 50 mg 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.

$216.50

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.

$43.06 with UPMC Health Plan vs $591.48 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 $43.06
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $56.85
Aetna Neighborhood Network $60.40
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $65.92
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $67.11
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $68.20
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $68.20
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $68.20
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $69.99
Aetna of PA Medicare $71.61
Cigna New Business ASO $73.61
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $73.66
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $73.66
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $73.66
Aetna Medicare $75.02
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $75.19
Bravo Medicare $75.78
Aetna EBR FI $82.27
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $83.88
Cigna Commercial $86.60
Aetna EBR ASO $86.60
Coventry/First Health Commercial $95.26
InterGroup PPO $108.25
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $129.90
Private Health Care Systems PPO $162.38
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $173.20
American Healthcare Group Commercial $173.20
National Provider Network PPO $177.53
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $194.71
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $194.85
Health Payors Organization Commercial $194.85
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $201.87
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $429.41
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $441.62
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $575.11
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $591.48
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Fludarabine 50 mg intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,164.80 $43.06 – $1,415.25
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $2,164.80 $43.06 – $3,066.80
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $2,164.80 $68.20 – $3,066.80
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $43.06 – $196.56
UPMC Muncy Muncy $1,258.80 $68.20 – $1,888.20
UPMC Somerset Somerset $81.00 $33.67 – $75.00
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $1,258.80 $68.20 – $1,888.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca not published $43.06 – $184.03

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