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Sumatriptan 6 mg/0.5 ml subcutaneous solution at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$1,520.40
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.
$2,534.00
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.
$73.05 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,552.10 with Private Health Care Systems — 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 | $73.05 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $80.01 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $92.25 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $233.39 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $253.31 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $256.04 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $339.26 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $342.91 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $456.50 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $620.84 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $657.18 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $678.52 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $730.40 | ↓ -52% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $764.18 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $843.61 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $913.00 | ↓ -40% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,004.30 | ↓ -34% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,278.20 | ↓ -16% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,515.58 | ↓ -0% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,552.10 | ↑ +2% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $1,552.10 | ↑ +2% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,552.10 | ↑ +2% |
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Sumatriptan 6 mg/0.5 ml subcutaneous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $321.60 | $2.97 – $127.00 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,520.40 | $69.57 – $2,153.90 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $874.40 | $2.97 – $197.35 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $1,520.40 | $90.40 – $2,153.90 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $148.00 | $27.75 – $166.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $476.80 | $2.97 – $237.16 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $105.60 | $59.26 – $132.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $148.00 | $33.30 – $166.50 |