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Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$422.40
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.
$704.00
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.
$34.79 with UPMC Health Plan vs $793.07 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $34.79 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $36.37 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $46.91 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $49.38 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $53.90 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $83.37 | ↓ -80% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $96.94 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $107.82 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $186.67 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $200.87 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $200.87 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $210.91 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $210.91 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $216.92 | ↓ -49% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $216.94 | ↓ -49% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $216.94 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $220.96 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $220.96 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $239.36 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $276.29 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $281.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $296.07 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $299.27 | ↓ -29% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $325.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $396.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $400.81 | ↓ -5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $492.80 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $584.32 | ↑ +38% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $598.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $598.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $598.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $793.07 | ↑ +88% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $771.00 | $34.79 – $1,156.50 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $421.80 | $34.79 – $597.55 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $490.20 | $34.79 – $694.45 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,143.00 | $34.79 – $1,524.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $388.20 | $34.79 – $549.95 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $522.00 | $34.79 – $582.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,143.00 | $34.79 – $894.60 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,143.00 | $34.79 – $1,524.00 |