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Irinotecan 20 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) 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

$1,591.20

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.

$1,989.00

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.

$1.11 with UPMC Health Plan vs $569.99 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 $1.11 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $1.38 ↓ -100%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1.54 ↓ -100%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $1.68 ↓ -100%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $1.71 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1.75 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1.75 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $1.75 ↓ -100%
Cigna New Business ASO $1.87 ↓ -100%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1.91 ↓ -100%
Bravo Medicare $1.93 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR FI $2.09 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2.15 ↓ -100%
Aetna EBR ASO $2.20 ↓ -100%
Cigna Commercial $2.20 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2.26 ↓ -100%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $2.42 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $2.75 ↓ -100%
InterGroup PPO $2.75 ↓ -100%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $3.31 ↓ -100%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $4.13 ↓ -100%
American Healthcare Group Commercial $4.41 ↓ -100%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $4.41 ↓ -100%
National Provider Network PPO $4.52 ↓ -100%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $4.96 ↓ -100%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $4.96 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $284.17 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $413.81 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $425.57 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $554.21 ↓ -65%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $569.99 ↓ -64%

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Irinotecan 20 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1,572.00 $1.11 – $399.50
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $7,858.80 $1.11 – $2,227.00
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $5,238.00 $1.11 – $286.88
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $1,572.00 $1.75 – $2,227.00
UPMC Muncy Muncy $1,091.20 $1.75 – $42.30
UPMC Northwest Seneca $719.20 $1.11 – $377.45
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $1,091.20 $1.75 – $42.30
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $1,091.20 $1.75 – $42.30

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