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Inj, abilify maintena, 1 mg 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

$2,848.80

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.

$4,748.00

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.

$3.05 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,194.59 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.

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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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $3.05 ↓ -100%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $3.07 ↓ -100%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $3.35 ↓ -100%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $3.41 ↓ -100%
Cigna New Business ASO $3.74 ↓ -100%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $3.82 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $3.85 ↓ -100%
Bravo Medicare $3.85 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR FI $4.18 ↓ -100%
Cigna Commercial $4.40 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR ASO $4.40 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $4.59 ↓ -100%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $4.84 ↓ -100%
InterGroup PPO $5.50 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $6.07 ↓ -100%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $6.60 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $7.28 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $7.28 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $7.28 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $7.47 ↓ -100%
Aetna of PA Medicare $7.64 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $7.86 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $7.86 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $7.86 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $8.01 ↓ -100%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $8.25 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $8.67 ↓ -100%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $8.80 ↓ -100%
American Healthcare Group Commercial $8.80 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $8.92 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $8.95 ↓ -100%
National Provider Network PPO $9.02 ↓ -100%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $9.90 ↓ -100%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $9.90 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $11.62 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $11.95 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $3,194.59 ↑ +12%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Inj, abilify maintena, 1 mg at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $13,261.20 $3.08 – $943.94
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $4,402.80 $3.08 – $3,055.69
UPMC Muncy Muncy $7,107.60 $4.35 – $26.10
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $7,107.60 $5.22 – $2,777.90
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $7,107.60 $7.28 – $26.10

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