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Injection, daratumumab 10 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

$147.60

Cash price

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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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$6,656.53

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.

$34.20 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $221.40 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $34.20 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $45.06 ↓ -69%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $59.49 ↓ -60%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $68.63 ↓ -54%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $71.37 ↓ -52%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $71.37 ↓ -52%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $71.37 ↓ -52%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $71.60 ↓ -51%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $73.24 ↓ -50%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $74.91 ↓ -49%
Aetna of PA Medicare $74.94 ↓ -49%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $76.26 ↓ -48%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $77.08 ↓ -48%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $77.08 ↓ -48%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $77.08 ↓ -48%
Aetna Medicare $78.51 ↓ -47%
Cigna New Business ASO $83.64 ↓ -43%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $85.44 ↓ -42%
Bravo Medicare $86.10 ↓ -42%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $87.79 ↓ -41%
Aetna EBR FI $93.48 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $97.32 ↓ -34%
Cigna Commercial $98.40 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $98.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $100.08 ↓ -32%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $108.24 ↓ -27%
InterGroup PPO $123.00 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $130.34 ↓ -12%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $134.05 ↓ -9%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $147.60 ↑ +0%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $184.50 ↑ +25%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $196.80 ↑ +33%
American Healthcare Group Commercial $196.80 ↑ +33%
National Provider Network PPO $201.72 ↑ +37%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $221.40 ↑ +50%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $221.40 ↑ +50%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Injection, daratumumab 10 mg at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $198.60 $34.53 – $175.95
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $198.60 $33.83 – $280.50
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $34.53 – $1,414.53
UPMC Northwest Seneca $682.80 $45.06 – $967.30
UPMC Somerset Somerset $85.20 $33.86 – $106.50
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $314.40 $71.37 – $353.70

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