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Administration chemotherapy IV infusion up to 1 hour single/initial substance/drug at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$790.20
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.
$1,317.00
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.
$137.28 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,465.51 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 | $137.28 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $149.76 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $162.24 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $185.08 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $188.20 | ↓ -76% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $194.28 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $197.48 | ↓ -75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $212.68 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $293.92 | ↓ -63% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $320.03 | ↓ -60% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $341.53 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $341.53 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $341.53 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $341.53 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $341.53 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $347.85 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $347.85 | ↓ -56% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $372.13 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $633.98 | ↓ -20% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $856.05 | ↑ +8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $920.45 | ↑ +16% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $921.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $946.62 | ↑ +20% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $987.75 | ↑ +25% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $987.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $1,053.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,053.60 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $1,053.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,053.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $1,119.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $1,119.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,119.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,232.76 | ↑ +56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,267.81 | ↑ +60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $2,465.51 | ↑ +212% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Administration chemotherapy IV infusion up to 1 hour single/initial substance/drug at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $771.00 | $137.28 – $1,156.50 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $735.00 | $137.28 – $1,041.25 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $984.60 | $137.28 – $1,394.85 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $808.20 | $137.28 – $1,077.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $912.00 | $137.28 – $1,292.00 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $608.40 | $137.28 – $760.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $977.60 | $137.28 – $1,099.80 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $808.20 | $137.28 – $1,077.60 |