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Prochlorperazine edisylate 10 mg/2 ml (5 mg/ml) injection 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

$16.40

Cash price

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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.

$20.50

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.

$1.14 with UPMC Health Plan vs $20.25 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 $1.14 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1.81 ↓ -89%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1.81 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $1.81 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2.23 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $3.98 ↓ -76%
Aetna Medicare $5.00 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $5.17 ↓ -68%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $5.58 ↓ -66%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $6.09 ↓ -63%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $6.20 ↓ -62%
Cigna New Business ASO $6.80 ↓ -59%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $6.95 ↓ -58%
Bravo Medicare $7.00 ↓ -57%
Aetna EBR FI $7.60 ↓ -54%
Aetna EBR ASO $8.00 ↓ -51%
Cigna Commercial $8.00 ↓ -51%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $8.80 ↓ -46%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $10.00 ↓ -39%
InterGroup PPO $10.00 ↓ -39%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $12.00 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $14.70 ↓ -10%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $15.00 ↓ -9%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $15.12 ↓ -8%
American Healthcare Group Commercial $16.00 ↓ -2%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $16.00 ↓ -2%
National Provider Network PPO $16.40 ↑ +0%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $18.00 ↑ +10%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $18.00 ↑ +10%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $19.69 ↑ +20%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $20.25 ↑ +23%

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Prochlorperazine edisylate 10 mg/2 ml (5 mg/ml) injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $83.40 $1.14 – $42.92
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $30.30 $1.14 – $42.50
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $24.00 $1.14 – $25.50
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $30.30 $1.81 – $42.92
UPMC Muncy Muncy $115.20 $1.81 – $106.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $16.20 $1.14 – $17.00
UPMC Somerset Somerset $5.40 $0.67 – $5.12
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $115.20 $1.81 – $100.80

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