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Tacrol astagraf ex rel oral 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

$1.60

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.

$2.00

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.

$0.33 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $6.33 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families — 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 $0.33 ↓ -79%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $0.37 ↓ -77%
Aetna Medicare $0.50 ↓ -69%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $0.56 ↓ -65%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $0.59 ↓ -63%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.59 ↓ -63%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $0.59 ↓ -63%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $0.61 ↓ -62%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $0.62 ↓ -61%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $0.64 ↓ -60%
Cigna New Business ASO $0.68 ↓ -58%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $0.69 ↓ -57%
Bravo Medicare $0.70 ↓ -56%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $0.72 ↓ -55%
Aetna EBR FI $0.76 ↓ -53%
Aetna EBR ASO $0.80 ↓ -50%
Cigna Commercial $0.80 ↓ -50%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $0.88 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $0.95 ↓ -41%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $0.98 ↓ -39%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1.00 ↓ -38%
InterGroup PPO $1.00 ↓ -38%
Cigna Behavioral Health Commercial $1.20 ↓ -25%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $1.28 ↓ -20%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $1.31 ↓ -18%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1.50 ↓ -6%
American Healthcare Group Commercial $1.60 ↑ +0%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $1.60 ↑ +0%
National Provider Network PPO $1.64 ↑ +3%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $1.80 ↑ +13%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $1.80 ↑ +13%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $6.33 ↑ +296%

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Tacrol astagraf ex rel oral at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $3.15 $0.34 – $5.78
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $3.15 $0.34 – $5.51
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $3.15 $0.33 – $4.46
UPMC Somerset Somerset $16.80 $0.33 – $1.50

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