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Vitamin b-12 at UPMC Passavant-McCandless
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699
$282.60
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.
$471.00
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.
$14.01 with UPMC Health Plan vs $377.40 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $14.01 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $14.30 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $14.90 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $14.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicaid | $15.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Medicare | $15.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $15.83 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $15.83 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $16.28 | ↓ -94% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $16.29 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $16.29 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $16.59 | ↓ -94% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $16.59 | ↓ -94% |
| Private Health Care Systems | Workers' Comp | $17.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $19.28 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $20.29 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $21.14 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $22.15 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $29.40 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $51.06 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $68.39 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $81.61 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $109.30 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $136.78 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $150.96 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $177.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley | Commercial | $205.13 | ↓ -27% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $310.80 | ↑ +10% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $368.52 | ↑ +30% |
| Humana | Commercial | $377.40 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) | $377.40 | ↑ +34% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $377.40 | ↑ +34% |
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Vitamin b-12 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $158.40 | $12.57 – $237.60 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,168.20 | $13.00 – $1,654.95 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $106.20 | $13.02 – $150.45 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $133.80 | $14.30 – $178.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $89.40 | $13.68 – $126.65 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $76.80 | $13.00 – $82.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $161.60 | $13.00 – $181.80 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $133.80 | $14.30 – $178.40 |