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Warde growth hormone (hgh) at UPMC Passavant-McCandless

9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225047699

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 7, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$400.80

Cash price

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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.

$668.00

Gross charge

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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.

$8.80 with UPMC Health Plan vs $567.80 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $8.80 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $9.20 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $11.86 ↓ -97%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $12.49 ↓ -97%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $13.63 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $15.49 ↓ -96%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $16.48 ↓ -96%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicaid $16.67 ↓ -96%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Medicare $16.67 ↓ -96%
Aetna of PA Medicare $17.50 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $17.50 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $18.00 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $18.00 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $18.00 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare $18.34 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $18.34 ↓ -95%
Private Health Care Systems Workers' Comp $19.16 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $27.82 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $32.52 ↓ -92%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $56.47 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $75.63 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $90.26 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $120.88 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $151.27 ↓ -62%
Cigna New Business ASO $227.12 ↓ -43%
Cigna Commercial $267.20 ↓ -33%
Health Plan of Upper Ohio Valley Commercial $308.62 ↓ -23%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $467.60 ↑ +17%
InterGroup PPO $554.44 ↑ +38%
Humana Commercial $567.80 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes Workers' Comp) $567.80 ↑ +42%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $567.80 ↑ +42%

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Warde growth hormone (hgh) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $142.20 $8.80 – $213.30
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $402.00 $8.00 – $569.50
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $100.20 $8.80 – $141.95
UPMC Muncy Muncy $280.80 $8.80 – $374.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $81.00 $8.80 – $114.75
UPMC Somerset Somerset $85.20 $8.80 – $106.50
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $340.00 $8.00 – $382.50
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $280.80 $8.80 – $374.40

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