Hydromorphone injection at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$21.00
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.
$35.00
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.
$2.25 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $26.35 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.
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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $2.25 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $6.18 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $6.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $7.75 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $8.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $8.37 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $10.54 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $11.16 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $12.40 | ↓ -41% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $12.97 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $13.09 | ↓ -38% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $14.32 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $15.50 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $16.56 | ↓ -21% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $17.05 | ↓ -19% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $21.70 | ↑ +3% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $25.73 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $26.35 | ↑ +25% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $26.35 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Commercial | $26.35 | ↑ +25% |
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Hydromorphone injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $85.80 | $2.25 – $5.33 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $25.20 | $2.25 – $2.25 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $2.23 – $5.33 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | not published | $2.25 – $2.25 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $6.00 | $2.77 – $8.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $5.79 – $5.79 |