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Pemetrexed disodium 100 mg intravenous powder for solution 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

$205.60

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.

$261.15

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.

$2.75 with UPMC Health Plan vs $226.35 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 $2.75 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $3.63 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $4.36 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $4.36 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $4.36 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $4.47 ↓ -98%
Aetna of PA Medicare $4.58 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4.71 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.71 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4.71 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $4.80 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $5.07 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $5.36 ↓ -97%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $7.41 ↓ -96%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $8.08 ↓ -96%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $8.23 ↓ -96%
Cigna New Business ASO $9.03 ↓ -96%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $9.22 ↓ -96%
Bravo Medicare $9.29 ↓ -95%
Aetna EBR FI $10.09 ↓ -95%
Cigna Commercial $10.62 ↓ -95%
Aetna EBR ASO $10.62 ↓ -95%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $11.68 ↓ -94%
InterGroup PPO $13.28 ↓ -94%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $15.93 ↓ -92%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $19.91 ↓ -90%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $21.24 ↓ -90%
American Healthcare Group Commercial $21.24 ↓ -90%
National Provider Network PPO $21.77 ↓ -89%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $23.89 ↓ -88%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $23.89 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $86.08 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $164.33 ↓ -20%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $169.00 ↓ -18%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $220.08 ↑ +7%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $226.35 ↑ +10%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Pemetrexed disodium 100 mg intravenous powder for solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,483.40 $2.75 – $235.45
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $23,822.40 $2.75 – $674.90
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $476.40 $4.36 – $674.90
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $2.75 – $86.90
UPMC Muncy Muncy $15,666.00 $4.36 – $469.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $379.20 $2.75 – $22.57
UPMC Somerset Somerset $2,425.80 $4.32 – $22.50
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $15,666.00 $4.36 – $469.80

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