Finasteride, 5 mg at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$20.40
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.
$34.00
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.
$0.07 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $34.92 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 | $0.07 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $4.75 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5.62 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $7.65 | ↓ -63% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $8.10 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $9.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $9.42 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $10.39 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $11.25 | ↓ -45% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $12.38 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $13.04 | ↓ -36% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $13.18 | ↓ -35% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $15.75 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $17.46 | ↓ -14% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $17.65 | ↓ -13% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $18.68 | ↓ -8% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $19.12 | ↓ -6% |
| Humana | Commercial | $19.12 | ↓ -6% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $19.12 | ↓ -6% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $23.32 | ↑ +14% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $34.92 | ↑ +71% |
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Finasteride, 5 mg at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $34.80 | $0.08 – $16.07 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $11.00 | $4.70 – $12.69 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $13.50 | $0.07 – $25.99 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $49.80 | $0.08 – $19.72 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $13.50 | $4.65 – $4.65 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $4.80 | $0.07 – $16.07 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $12.80 | $0.07 – $16.07 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $27.80 | $0.07 – $27.80 |