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Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$29.80
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.
$37.25
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.
$0.03 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $32.40 with Multiplan — 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 |
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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $0.03 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $0.41 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $0.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.65 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $0.65 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.78 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $0.80 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $9.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $10.04 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $10.96 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $11.16 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $12.24 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $12.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $12.60 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $13.16 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $13.68 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $14.40 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $14.40 | ↓ -52% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $15.84 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $18.00 | ↓ -40% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $18.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $20.47 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $21.05 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $21.60 | ↓ -28% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $27.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $27.41 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $28.19 | ↓ -5% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $28.80 | ↓ -3% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $28.80 | ↓ -3% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $29.52 | ↓ -1% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $32.40 | ↑ +9% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $32.40 | ↑ +9% |
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Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $76.20 | $0.03 – $38.25 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $76.20 | $0.03 – $13.29 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $78.80 | $0.03 – $22.10 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $76.20 | $0.65 – $102.00 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $32.40 | $0.65 – $13.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $52.20 | $0.41 – $30.60 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $32.40 | $0.65 – $13.50 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $32.40 | $0.65 – $13.50 |