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Buprenorphine hydrochloride at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$29.85
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.
$49.75
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.
$1.80 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $41.65 with InterGroup — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $1.80 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $2.63 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $4.17 | ↓ -86% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $4.17 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $4.17 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $4.17 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5.12 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $5.64 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $5.80 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $7.56 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $7.77 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $8.82 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $12.25 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $15.11 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $16.01 | ↓ -46% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $18.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $24.50 | ↓ -18% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $31.85 | ↑ +7% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $34.30 | ↑ +15% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $36.75 | ↑ +23% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $36.75 | ↑ +23% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $39.20 | ↑ +31% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $39.20 | ↑ +31% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $39.20 | ↑ +31% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $39.20 | ↑ +31% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $41.65 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | Commercial | $41.65 | ↑ +40% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $41.65 | ↑ +40% |
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Buprenorphine hydrochloride at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $14.40 | $1.78 – $16.20 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $29.85 | $1.80 – $42.29 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $14.20 | $1.80 – $14.45 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $29.85 | $1.77 – $42.29 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $14.20 | $2.66 – $15.97 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $9.00 | $1.77 – $9.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $14.20 | $3.19 – $15.97 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $14.20 | $4.17 – $15.30 |