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Budesonide non-comp unit at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$1,843.20
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.
$3,072.00
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.
$0.79 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,624.10 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 | $0.79 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $0.85 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $0.87 | ↓ -100% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1.35 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $1.35 | ↓ -100% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1.35 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1.66 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $198.25 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $220.81 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $269.62 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $285.40 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $317.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $331.87 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $366.37 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $396.50 | ↓ -78% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $555.10 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $606.32 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $612.86 | ↓ -67% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $658.19 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Commercial | $674.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $674.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $674.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $812.05 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $820.80 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,624.10 | ↓ -12% |
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Budesonide non-comp unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $714.40 | $0.85 – $803.70 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,843.20 | $0.76 – $2,611.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $1,982.40 | $0.83 – $2,106.30 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $1,843.20 | $1.35 – $2,611.20 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $463.20 | $1.35 – $521.10 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $875.20 | $0.79 – $929.90 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $463.20 | $0.76 – $521.10 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $463.20 | $1.35 – $521.10 |