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Remdesivir 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

$17.00

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.

$1,428.70

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.

$2.36 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $18.90 with Health Payors Organization — 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $2.36 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $4.25 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $5.61 ↓ -67%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $5.86 ↓ -66%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $6.39 ↓ -62%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $6.51 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $6.72 ↓ -60%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $6.73 ↓ -60%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $6.73 ↓ -60%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $6.73 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $6.91 ↓ -59%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $6.91 ↓ -59%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $7.03 ↓ -59%
Aetna of PA Medicare $7.07 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $7.14 ↓ -58%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $7.27 ↓ -57%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $7.27 ↓ -57%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $7.27 ↓ -57%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $7.29 ↓ -57%
Bravo Medicare $7.35 ↓ -57%
Aetna Medicare $7.40 ↓ -56%
Aetna EBR FI $7.98 ↓ -53%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $8.28 ↓ -51%
Cigna Commercial $8.40 ↓ -51%
Aetna EBR ASO $8.40 ↓ -51%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $9.00 ↓ -47%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $9.24 ↓ -46%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $9.25 ↓ -46%
InterGroup PPO $10.50 ↓ -38%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $12.60 ↓ -26%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $15.75 ↓ -7%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $16.80 ↓ -1%
American Healthcare Group Commercial $16.80 ↓ -1%
National Provider Network PPO $17.22 ↑ +1%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $18.90 ↑ +11%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $18.90 ↑ +11%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Remdesivir 100 mg intravenous powder for solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $16.80 $2.38 – $17.85
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $16.80 $2.38 – $23.80
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $17.00 $2.38 – $17.85
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $16.80 $2.34 – $23.80
UPMC Muncy Muncy $16.00 $3.00 – $18.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $17.00 $4.25 – $17.85
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $16.00 $3.60 – $18.00
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $16.00 $5.42 – $18.00

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