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Vaccine influenza trivalent (cciiv3) cell cultures subunit antibiotic free 0.5 ml im at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$18.00
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.
$30.00
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.
$7.50 with Aetna vs $113.18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $7.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $10.20 | ↓ -43% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $10.80 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $11.00 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $11.50 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $12.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $12.55 | ↓ -30% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $13.86 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $15.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $15.39 | ↓ -15% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $15.61 | ↓ -13% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $21.00 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $24.90 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Commercial | $25.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $25.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $25.50 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $42.25 | ↑ +135% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $42.71 | ↑ +137% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $49.49 | ↑ +175% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $49.49 | ↑ +175% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $56.59 | ↑ +214% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $57.20 | ↑ +218% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $60.88 | ↑ +238% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $113.18 | ↑ +529% |
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Vaccine influenza trivalent (cciiv3) cell cultures subunit antibiotic free 0.5 ml im at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $24.00 | $7.50 – $49.49 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $18.00 | $7.50 – $49.49 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $24.00 | $7.50 – $49.49 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $18.00 | $7.50 – $49.49 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $24.00 | $4.50 – $27.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $24.00 | $7.50 – $49.49 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $51.00 | $7.07 – $15.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $24.00 | $5.40 – $27.00 |