Azithromycin dihydrate, oral at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$202.80
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.
$338.00
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.
$0.23 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $292.47 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison MedPLUS | $0.23 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $0.25 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $39.76 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $47.75 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $64.94 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $68.74 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $76.40 | ↓ -62% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $79.93 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $88.24 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $95.50 | ↓ -53% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $105.05 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $109.19 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $110.36 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $127.50 | ↓ -37% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $133.70 | ↓ -34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $146.23 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $147.81 | ↓ -27% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $158.53 | ↓ -22% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $162.35 | ↓ -20% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $162.35 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | Commercial | $162.35 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $292.47 | ↑ +44% |
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Azithromycin dihydrate, oral at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $202.80 | $0.24 – $87.86 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $95.20 | $1.31 – $69.38 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $202.80 | $0.22 – $142.06 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $128.80 | $39.76 – $107.82 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $202.80 | $38.96 – $38.96 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $76.40 | $5.58 – $87.86 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $334.40 | $0.22 – $129.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $235.20 | $12.62 – $128.80 |