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Injection glatiramer acetate at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$1,279.20
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.
$2,132.00
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.
$55.77 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $361.80 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $55.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $71.32 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $112.16 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $122.41 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $124.62 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $136.68 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $139.47 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $139.61 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $140.70 | ↓ -89% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $140.70 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $152.76 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $160.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $160.80 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $171.69 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $175.68 | ↓ -86% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $176.88 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $180.69 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $180.69 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $180.69 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $180.90 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $184.04 | ↓ -86% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $201.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $202.94 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $208.71 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $221.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $241.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $271.79 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $279.53 | ↓ -78% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $301.50 | ↓ -76% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $321.60 | ↓ -75% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $321.60 | ↓ -75% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $329.64 | ↓ -74% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $361.80 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $361.80 | ↓ -72% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection glatiramer acetate at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,207.20 | $50.92 – $401.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $775.80 | $48.50 – $401.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $318.40 | $53.35 – $338.30 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $775.80 | $70.55 – $401.20 |