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Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$7,843.80
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.
$13,073.00
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.
$297.20 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $11,112.05 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.
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 | $297.20 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,259.17 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,272.75 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1,336.25 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,686.42 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,704.58 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,966.70 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $2,116.32 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $2,116.32 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $2,116.32 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $2,116.32 | ↓ -73% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2,116.32 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $2,222.14 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $2,222.14 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,285.41 | ↓ -71% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2,285.63 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,285.63 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,327.95 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $2,327.95 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,603.08 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $3,372.84 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $4,444.82 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $4,704.97 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5,229.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $5,471.05 | ↓ -30% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $6,039.73 | ↓ -23% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $9,151.10 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $10,850.59 | ↑ +38% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $11,112.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $11,112.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $11,112.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Thyrotropin alfa 0.9 mg intramuscular solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $8,959.80 | $297.20 – $12,693.05 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $19,696.80 | $297.20 – $3,894.53 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $294.40 – $4,123.62 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,186.20 | $291.42 – $2,116.32 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $1,178.91 – $3,894.53 |