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Vancomycin hcl injection at UPMC Mercy
1400 Locust Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 163914308
$25.80
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.
$70.95
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.
$1.13 with Aetna vs $56.82 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $1.13 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1.26 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1.37 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1.40 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1.53 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Bravo | Medicare | $1.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1.71 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $1.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1.98 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2.03 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2.25 | ↓ -91% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2.25 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2.48 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $2.71 | ↓ -89% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3.38 | ↓ -87% |
| American Healthcare Group | Commercial | $3.61 | ↓ -86% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $3.61 | ↓ -86% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $3.70 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $4.06 | ↓ -84% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $4.06 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $14.50 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $41.25 | ↑ +60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $42.43 | ↑ +64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $55.25 | ↑ +114% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $56.82 | ↑ +120% |
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Vancomycin hcl injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $280.20 | $3.50 – $14.64 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $74.40 | $1.13 – $14.64 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $74.40 | $2.55 – $15.30 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $42.00 | $1.13 – $37.63 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $74.40 | $3.06 – $15.30 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $37.20 | $16.74 – $55.80 |