Minoxidil, 10 mg at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$8.40
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.
$14.00
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.
$0.10 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $16.98 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 | $0.10 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $0.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2.19 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $2.31 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2.98 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3.15 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $3.66 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $4.04 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4.38 | ↓ -48% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $4.81 | ↓ -43% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $6.12 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $6.34 | ↓ -25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $6.41 | ↓ -24% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $7.26 | ↓ -14% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7.44 | ↓ -11% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $7.44 | ↓ -11% |
| Humana | Commercial | $7.44 | ↓ -11% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $8.49 | ↑ +1% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $8.58 | ↑ +2% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $12.03 | ↑ +43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $16.98 | ↑ +102% |
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Minoxidil, 10 mg at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $16.80 | $0.11 – $8.29 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $10.80 | $2.29 – $6.54 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5.25 | $0.10 – $13.40 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $20.40 | $0.11 – $10.17 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $5.25 | $2.26 – $2.26 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1.40 | $0.10 – $8.29 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $13.60 | $0.10 – $13.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $20.20 | $0.10 – $0.52 |