5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$96.60
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.
$161.00
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.
$25.11 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $107.95 with Humana — 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 | $25.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $31.75 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $35.86 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $36.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $43.18 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $45.71 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $48.03 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $48.55 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $50.80 | ↓ -47% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $53.15 | ↓ -45% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $58.67 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $63.50 | ↓ -34% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $69.85 | ↓ -28% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $88.90 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $96.06 | ↓ -1% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $98.73 | ↑ +2% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $105.41 | ↑ +9% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $107.95 | ↑ +12% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $107.95 | ↑ +12% |
| Humana | Commercial | $107.95 | ↑ +12% |
Visitor-reported prices
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5% dextrose and 0.45% saline at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $96.60 | $8.87 – $68.04 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $58.60 | $24.87 – $53.73 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $96.60 | $25.11 – $110.01 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $115.20 | $25.11 – $83.49 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $96.60 | $24.60 – $24.60 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $79.20 | $24.87 – $79.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $74.20 | $23.19 – $83.47 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $148.80 | $22.25 – $148.80 |