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Aprepitant 130 mg/18 ml (7.2 mg/ml) intravenous emulsion at UPMC Presbyterian

200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$10.20

Cash price

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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.

$17.00

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.

$1.04 with UPMC Health Plan vs $14.64 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.

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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 $1.04 ↓ -90%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1.64 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $1.64 ↓ -84%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1.64 ↓ -84%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $1.64 ↓ -84%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $1.74 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $1.75 ↓ -83%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $1.77 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Medicare $1.77 ↓ -83%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $1.77 ↓ -83%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1.77 ↓ -83%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1.77 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare $1.80 ↓ -82%
Aetna of PA Medicare $1.80 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2.02 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $5.47 ↓ -46%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.56 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $5.62 ↓ -45%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $6.46 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $7.32 ↓ -28%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $7.53 ↓ -26%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $11.05 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $11.90 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $12.75 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $12.75 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $13.60 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $13.60 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $13.60 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $13.60 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $14.45 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $14.45 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $14.45 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $14.64 ↑ +44%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Aprepitant 130 mg/18 ml (7.2 mg/ml) intravenous emulsion at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $9.20 $1.04 – $6.30
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $10.20 $1.04 – $6.80
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $7.80 $1.04 – $7.65
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $10.20 $1.64 – $14.45
UPMC Northwest Seneca $7.80 $1.04 – $6.80
UPMC Somerset Somerset $13.80 $1.62 – $17.25
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $4.20 $1.26 – $6.30
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $4.20 $1.64 – $6.30

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