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Carbamazepine total therapeutic drug level 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

$645.60

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.

$1,076.00

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.

$14.40 with UPMC Work Partners vs $914.60 with Humana — 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 Work Partners Workers Comp $14.40 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $15.74 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare $15.74 ↓ -98%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $15.74 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $15.74 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $15.74 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $16.03 ↓ -98%
Aetna of PA Medicare $16.03 ↓ -98%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $16.74 ↓ -97%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $18.50 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $20.35 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $22.20 ↓ -97%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $24.05 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $26.38 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $27.44 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $28.41 ↓ -96%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $28.80 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $29.27 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $31.53 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $47.22 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $63.24 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $74.64 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $99.96 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $126.48 ↓ -80%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $699.40 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $753.20 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $807.00 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $807.00 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $860.80 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $860.80 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $860.80 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $860.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $914.60 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $914.60 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $914.60 ↑ +42%

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Carbamazepine total therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $349.80 $13.54 – $495.55
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $189.60 $12.15 – $284.40
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $137.40 $12.58 – $194.65
UPMC Muncy Muncy $197.40 $14.40 – $263.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $89.40 $13.21 – $126.65
UPMC Somerset Somerset $103.80 $14.40 – $129.75
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $238.40 $14.40 – $268.20
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $197.40 $14.40 – $263.20

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