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Leuprolide 3.75 mg intramuscular syringe kit at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$3,559.80
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.
$5,933.00
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.
$954.16 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $5,987.75 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families — 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 | $954.16 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1,092.53 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1,096.50 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,160.68 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,290.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $1,349.66 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $1,489.95 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,607.99 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $1,730.32 | ↓ -51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,730.32 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $1,730.32 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $1,730.32 | ↓ -51% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1,730.32 | ↓ -51% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $1,816.84 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,816.84 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,868.57 | ↓ -48% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,868.75 | ↓ -48% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,868.75 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,903.35 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $1,903.35 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,905.21 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,925.77 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,128.30 | ↓ -40% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $2,257.50 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,551.68 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,579.15 | ↓ -28% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $2,676.75 | ↓ -25% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,741.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $2,741.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,741.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $5,103.36 | ↑ +43% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison MedPLUS | $5,467.08 | ↑ +54% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $5,987.75 | ↑ +68% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Leuprolide 3.75 mg intramuscular syringe kit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,249.40 | $828.43 – $2,672.37 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $10,678.20 | $954.16 – $5,206.74 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4,568.40 | $748.26 – $2,523.91 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $3,559.80 | $934.99 – $5,043.05 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $6,521.40 | $1,072.21 – $2,523.91 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $3,087.60 | $577.44 – $1,730.32 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,045.80 | $313.74 – $1,730.32 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $1,045.80 | $472.70 – $1,730.32 |