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Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$121.20
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.
$202.00
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.
$28.27 with UPMC Health Plan vs $421.72 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.
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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $28.27 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $29.55 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $38.11 | ↓ -69% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $40.12 | ↓ -67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $43.80 | ↓ -64% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $51.26 | ↓ -58% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $59.61 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $60.27 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $68.68 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $80.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $93.32 | ↓ -23% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $114.20 | ↓ -6% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $122.89 | ↑ +1% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $122.89 | ↑ +1% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $129.03 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $129.03 | ↑ +6% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $132.71 | ↑ +9% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $132.72 | ↑ +10% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $132.72 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $135.18 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $135.18 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $141.40 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $142.21 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $157.44 | ↑ +30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $167.29 | ↑ +38% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $167.66 | ↑ +38% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $171.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $171.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $171.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $210.85 | ↑ +74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $224.05 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $421.72 | ↑ +248% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $272.40 | $28.27 – $408.60 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $355.80 | $28.27 – $504.05 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $186.60 | $28.27 – $264.35 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $246.60 | $28.27 – $328.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $171.60 | $28.27 – $243.10 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $273.00 | $28.27 – $194.25 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $297.60 | $28.27 – $334.80 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $246.60 | $28.27 – $328.80 |