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Hemin 350 mg intravenous powder for solution 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

$85.20

Cash price

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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.

$142.00

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.

$14.00 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $120.70 with Humana — 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $14.00 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $21.58 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $31.76 ↓ -63%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicare $34.18 ↓ -60%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $34.18 ↓ -60%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicaid $34.18 ↓ -60%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $34.18 ↓ -60%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $34.18 ↓ -60%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $35.89 ↓ -58%
Aetna of PA Medicare $35.89 ↓ -58%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $36.91 ↓ -57%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $36.91 ↓ -57%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $36.91 ↓ -57%
Aetna Medicare $37.60 ↓ -56%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $37.60 ↓ -56%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $38.44 ↓ -55%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $38.85 ↓ -54%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $42.04 ↓ -51%
Cigna New Business ASO $48.28 ↓ -43%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $51.11 ↓ -40%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $51.48 ↓ -40%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $52.04 ↓ -39%
Cigna Commercial $56.80 ↓ -33%
Private Health Care Systems Workers' Comp $59.43 ↓ -30%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Commercial $65.60 ↓ -23%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $99.40 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $102.96 ↑ +21%
InterGroup PPO $117.86 ↑ +38%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $120.70 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) $120.70 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $120.70 ↑ +42%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Hemin 350 mg intravenous powder for solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $28,532.40 $14.00 – $120.70
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $85.20 $13.72 – $120.70
UPMC Somerset Somerset $6,247.80 $13.73 – $7,809.75

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