Parenteral 50% dextrose solu at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$145.60
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.
$182.00
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.
$21.19 with Aetna vs $98.67 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $21.19 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $23.65 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $25.81 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $26.27 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $26.64 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $28.82 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $29.43 | ↓ -80% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $29.66 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $32.20 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $33.90 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $33.90 | ↓ -77% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $37.29 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $40.23 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $40.96 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $42.38 | ↓ -71% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $42.38 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $46.61 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $50.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $53.87 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $54.85 | ↓ -62% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $63.56 | ↓ -56% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $67.80 | ↓ -53% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $67.80 | ↓ -53% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $69.50 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $76.28 | ↓ -48% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $76.28 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $77.92 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $98.67 | ↓ -32% |
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Parenteral 50% dextrose solu at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $228.60 | $19.00 – $98.67 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $228.60 | $26.89 – $143.19 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $228.60 | $20.63 – $159.54 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $165.60 | $26.89 – $121.08 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $228.60 | $26.35 – $26.35 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $9.20 | $4.28 – $98.67 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $225.60 | $70.50 – $253.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $165.60 | $7.62 – $98.67 |