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Romosozumab-aqqg 105 mg/1.17 ml subcutaneous syringe (wrapper) 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

$8,428.80

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.

$14,048.00

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.

$5.59 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $52.70 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.

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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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $5.59 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $7.62 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $11.22 ↓ -100%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicare $12.07 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $12.07 ↓ -100%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicaid $12.07 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $12.07 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $12.07 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $12.67 ↓ -100%
Aetna of PA Medicare $12.67 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $13.03 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $13.04 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $13.04 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $13.28 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $13.28 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $14.85 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $15.36 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $15.52 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $20.57 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $20.79 ↓ -100%
Cigna New Business ASO $21.08 ↓ -100%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $22.31 ↓ -100%
Cigna Commercial $24.80 ↓ -100%
Private Health Care Systems Workers' Comp $25.95 ↓ -100%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Commercial $28.64 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $41.13 ↓ -100%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $43.40 ↓ -99%
InterGroup PPO $51.46 ↓ -99%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $52.70 ↓ -99%
Multiplan PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) $52.70 ↓ -99%
Humana Commercial $52.70 ↓ -99%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Romosozumab-aqqg 105 mg/1.17 ml subcutaneous syringe (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $8,032.20 $5.54 – $12,048.30
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $12,093.00 $5.59 – $85.00
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $8,341.20 $5.59 – $56.95
UPMC Northwest Seneca $7,324.20 $7.62 – $43.35
UPMC Somerset Somerset $641.40 $5.48 – $780.00
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $8,542.20 $5.76 – $28.80

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