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Hydrocortisone in ns IV syringe 1 mg/ml (neo/ped) - cnr at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$27.00
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.
$253.40
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.
$5.75 with Aetna vs $26.31 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families — 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 | $5.75 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $6.42 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $7.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $7.13 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $7.82 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $7.99 | ↓ -70% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $8.05 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $8.74 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $9.15 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $9.20 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $9.20 | ↓ -66% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $10.12 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $11.50 | ↓ -57% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $11.50 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $13.46 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $13.80 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $16.87 | ↓ -38% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $17.25 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $17.35 | ↓ -36% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $18.40 | ↓ -32% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $18.40 | ↓ -32% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $18.86 | ↓ -30% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $19.78 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $20.70 | ↓ -23% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $20.70 | ↓ -23% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $20.71 | ↓ -23% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $21.31 | ↓ -21% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $21.31 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $22.60 | ↓ -16% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $23.24 | ↓ -14% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $26.21 | ↓ -3% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $26.31 | ↓ -3% |
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Hydrocortisone in ns IV syringe 1 mg/ml (neo/ped) - cnr at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $256.80 | $9.23 – $34.85 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $159.60 | $9.23 – $75.65 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $40.80 | $8.25 – $28.05 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $53.85 | $9.05 – $76.29 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $583.20 | $12.75 – $76.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $42.80 | $8.25 – $28.05 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $22.20 | $6.06 – $21.31 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $583.20 | $14.58 – $72.90 |