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Teriparatide injection at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$67.80
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.
$113.00
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.
$14.96 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,125.32 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $14.96 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $15.31 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $20.82 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $22.04 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $24.50 | ↓ -64% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $25.63 | ↓ -62% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $25.87 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $28.30 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $30.62 | ↓ -55% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $33.69 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $41.07 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $41.51 | ↓ -39% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $42.88 | ↓ -37% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $50.84 | ↓ -25% |
| Humana | Commercial | $52.06 | ↓ -23% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $52.06 | ↓ -23% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $52.06 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $55.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $55.59 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $110.00 | ↑ +62% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison MedPLUS | $1,940.51 | ↑ +2762% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $2,125.32 | ↑ +3035% |
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Teriparatide injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,429.40 | $10.98 – $1,848.10 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $6,598.80 | $14.96 – $2,032.91 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $36.75 | $14.66 – $52.06 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $53.80 | $16.75 – $1,940.51 |