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C-1 esterase, berinert at UPMC Passavant-McCandless

9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 7, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$168.60

Cash price

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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.

$281.00

Gross charge

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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.

$47.90 with UPMC Health Plan vs $596.95 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $47.90 ↓ -72%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $70.50 ↓ -58%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicare $75.86 ↓ -55%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $75.86 ↓ -55%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicaid $75.86 ↓ -55%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $75.86 ↓ -55%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $75.86 ↓ -55%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $79.65 ↓ -53%
Aetna of PA Medicare $79.65 ↓ -53%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $81.16 ↓ -52%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $81.92 ↓ -51%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $81.93 ↓ -51%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $81.93 ↓ -51%
Aetna Medicare $83.45 ↓ -51%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $83.45 ↓ -51%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $93.31 ↓ -45%
Cigna New Business ASO $95.54 ↓ -43%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $101.13 ↓ -40%
Cigna Commercial $112.40 ↓ -33%
Private Health Care Systems Workers' Comp $117.60 ↓ -30%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Commercial $129.82 ↓ -23%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $196.70 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $222.85 ↑ +32%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $225.26 ↑ +34%
InterGroup PPO $233.23 ↑ +38%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $238.85 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) $238.85 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $238.85 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $298.47 ↑ +77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $301.69 ↑ +79%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $596.95 ↑ +254%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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C-1 esterase, berinert at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $163.20 $47.90 – $183.60
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $168.60 $75.86 – $238.85
UPMC Muncy Muncy $156.00 $29.25 – $175.50
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $156.00 $35.10 – $175.50
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $156.00 $52.88 – $175.50

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