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Octreotide,microspheres ER 20 mg intramuscular susp, extended release at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$8,451.00
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.
$15,486.40
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.
$128.54 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,110.28 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 |
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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $128.54 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $145.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $158.74 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $161.60 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $169.70 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $172.27 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $177.24 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $181.05 | ↓ -98% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $182.46 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $198.09 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $203.58 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $203.58 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $203.58 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $208.52 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $208.52 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $208.91 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $213.76 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $219.87 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $219.87 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $219.87 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $223.94 | ↓ -97% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $229.37 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $244.64 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $250.41 | ↓ -97% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $260.65 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $312.78 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $346.91 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $356.76 | ↓ -96% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $390.98 | ↓ -95% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $417.04 | ↓ -95% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $417.04 | ↓ -95% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $427.47 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $464.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $469.17 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $469.17 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $477.83 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $5,110.28 | ↓ -40% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Octreotide,microspheres ER 20 mg intramuscular susp, extended release at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $23,098.20 | $128.54 – $4,665.91 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $30,309.60 | $128.54 – $4,443.72 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $7,328.40 | $128.54 – $4,888.09 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $1,515.00 | $170.42 – $1,430.55 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $28,302.00 | $203.58 – $1,417.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $571.20 | $128.54 – $4,665.91 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,066.20 | $170.53 – $2,590.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $28,302.00 | $203.58 – $4,443.72 |