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Romosozumab-aqqg 105 mg/1.17 ml subcutaneous syringe (wrapper) 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

$8,032.20

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.

$13,387.00

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.

$5.54 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $12,048.30 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 $5.54 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $7.62 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $10.06 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $12.07 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $12.07 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $12.07 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $12.39 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $12.45 ↓ -100%
Aetna of PA Medicare $12.67 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $13.04 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $13.04 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $13.04 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $13.28 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $14.85 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $15.76 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $16.21 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $21.11 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $21.71 ↓ -100%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $3,734.97 ↓ -54%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $4,076.34 ↓ -49%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $4,149.97 ↓ -48%
Cigna New Business ASO $4,551.58 ↓ -43%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4,649.31 ↓ -42%
Bravo Medicare $4,685.45 ↓ -42%
Aetna EBR FI $5,087.06 ↓ -37%
Cigna Commercial $5,354.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna EBR ASO $5,354.80 ↓ -33%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $5,890.28 ↓ -27%
InterGroup PPO $6,693.50 ↓ -17%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $8,032.20 ↑ +0%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $10,040.25 ↑ +25%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $10,709.60 ↑ +33%
American Healthcare Group Commercial $10,709.60 ↑ +33%
National Provider Network PPO $10,977.34 ↑ +37%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $12,048.30 ↑ +50%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $12,048.30 ↑ +50%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Romosozumab-aqqg 105 mg/1.17 ml subcutaneous syringe (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $8,428.80 $5.59 – $52.70
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $12,093.00 $5.59 – $85.00
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $8,341.20 $5.59 – $56.95
UPMC Northwest Seneca $7,324.20 $7.62 – $43.35
UPMC Somerset Somerset $641.40 $5.48 – $780.00
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $8,542.20 $5.76 – $28.80

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