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Aldesleukin injection at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$8,184.00
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.
$13,640.00
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.
$552.16 with Cigna vs $8,428.04 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 |
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| Cigna | New Business ASO | $552.16 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $584.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $649.60 | ↓ -92% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $679.64 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $685.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $750.29 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $893.20 | ↓ -89% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,136.80 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,312.05 | ↓ -84% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,347.92 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,380.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $1,380.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,380.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,146.39 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $3,180.34 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $4,214.02 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $4,259.39 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4,926.46 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $5,301.26 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $5,301.26 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $5,566.32 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $5,566.32 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5,724.83 | ↓ -30% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5,725.36 | ↓ -30% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5,725.36 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5,831.39 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $5,831.39 | ↓ -29% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $8,428.04 | ↑ +3% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Aldesleukin injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,184.00 | $530.72 – $5,831.39 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $8,184.00 | $482.33 – $5,725.36 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $1,299.67 – $7,215.69 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | not published | $1,312.05 – $6,814.82 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $6,538.20 | $1,634.55 – $9,807.30 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $3,330.60 | $1,286.53 – $5,724.83 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $6,538.20 | $1,961.46 – $9,807.30 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $2,895.09 – $6,814.82 |