Parenteral 50% dextrose solu at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$228.60
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.
$381.00
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.
$17.00 with Aetna vs $197.79 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $17.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $23.12 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $24.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $26.89 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $27.20 | ↓ -88% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $28.46 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $31.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $34.00 | ↓ -85% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $37.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $47.60 | ↓ -79% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $56.44 | ↓ -75% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $57.80 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Commercial | $57.80 | ↓ -75% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $57.80 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $73.84 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $74.63 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $98.89 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $99.96 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $143.19 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $197.79 | ↓ -13% |
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Parenteral 50% dextrose solu at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $228.60 | $19.00 – $98.67 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $145.60 | $26.64 – $77.92 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $228.60 | $20.63 – $159.54 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $165.60 | $26.89 – $121.08 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $228.60 | $26.35 – $26.35 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $9.20 | $4.28 – $98.67 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $225.60 | $70.50 – $253.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $165.60 | $7.62 – $98.67 |