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Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
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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.
$4,581.80
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.
$294.40 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $4,123.62 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.
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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $294.40 | — |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1,278.32 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,292.47 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,329.20 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1,336.25 | — |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1,395.16 | — |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1,420.36 | — |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,557.81 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,591.26 | — |
| Bravo | Medicare | $1,603.63 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,730.99 | — |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1,741.08 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,764.16 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,780.26 | — |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,832.72 | — |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1,832.72 | — |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,015.99 | — |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,116.32 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2,116.32 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,116.32 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $2,171.77 | — |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $2,222.14 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,285.63 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,285.63 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,285.63 | — |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,290.90 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,327.95 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,345.32 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,603.08 | — |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $2,749.08 | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,436.35 | — |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $3,665.44 | — |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $3,665.44 | — |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $3,757.08 | — |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $4,123.62 | — |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $4,123.62 | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $7,843.80 | $297.20 – $11,112.05 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,959.80 | $297.20 – $12,693.05 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $19,696.80 | $297.20 – $3,894.53 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,186.20 | $291.42 – $2,116.32 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $1,178.91 – $3,894.53 |