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Pemetrexed disodium 100 mg intravenous powder for solution at UPMC Passavant-McCandless

9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 7, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$2,483.40

Cash price

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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.

$4,139.00

Gross charge

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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.

$2.75 with UPMC Health Plan vs $428.83 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $2.75 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $4.05 ↓ -100%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicare $4.36 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $4.36 ↓ -100%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicaid $4.36 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $4.36 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $4.36 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $4.58 ↓ -100%
Aetna of PA Medicare $4.58 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4.71 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.71 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4.71 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $4.80 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $4.80 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $5.36 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $86.90 ↓ -97%
Cigna New Business ASO $94.18 ↓ -96%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $99.69 ↓ -96%
Cigna Commercial $110.80 ↓ -96%
Private Health Care Systems Workers' Comp $115.92 ↓ -95%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Commercial $127.97 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $160.09 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $161.82 ↓ -93%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $193.90 ↓ -92%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $214.42 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $216.73 ↓ -91%
InterGroup PPO $229.91 ↓ -91%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $235.45 ↓ -91%
Multiplan PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) $235.45 ↓ -91%
Humana Commercial $235.45 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $428.83 ↓ -83%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Pemetrexed disodium 100 mg intravenous powder for solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $205.60 $2.75 – $86.08
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $23,822.40 $2.75 – $674.90
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $476.40 $4.36 – $674.90
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $2.75 – $86.90
UPMC Muncy Muncy $15,666.00 $4.36 – $469.80
UPMC Northwest Seneca $379.20 $2.75 – $22.57
UPMC Somerset Somerset $2,425.80 $4.32 – $22.50
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $15,666.00 $4.36 – $469.80

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