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Filgrastim-aafi 300 mcg/0.5 ml subcutaneous syringe 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

$4.80

Cash price

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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.

$8.00

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.

$0.19 with UPMC Health Plan vs $3.94 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 $0.19 ↓ -96%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.30 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $0.30 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $0.30 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $0.30 ↓ -94%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $0.32 ↓ -93%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $0.32 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Medicare $0.32 ↓ -93%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $0.32 ↓ -93%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $0.32 ↓ -93%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $0.32 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $0.33 ↓ -93%
Aetna of PA Medicare $0.33 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $0.37 ↓ -92%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $0.47 ↓ -90%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $0.65 ↓ -86%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $0.76 ↓ -84%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $1.30 ↓ -73%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1.40 ↓ -71%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $1.47 ↓ -69%
Fidelis Medicare $1.50 ↓ -69%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $1.50 ↓ -69%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $1.51 ↓ -69%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $1.60 ↓ -67%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1.60 ↓ -67%
SelectCare Commercial $1.60 ↓ -67%
Multiplan PPO $1.60 ↓ -67%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $1.70 ↓ -65%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $1.70 ↓ -65%
Humana Commercial $1.70 ↓ -65%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $1.97 ↓ -59%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $2.02 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $3.94 ↓ -18%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Filgrastim-aafi 300 mcg/0.5 ml subcutaneous syringe at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $1.20 $0.19 – $0.90
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $548.40 $0.19 – $0.85
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $3.00 $0.19 – $0.85
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $1.95 $0.30 – $1.70
UPMC Muncy Muncy $582.00 $0.15 – $0.90
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1.20 $0.19 – $0.85
UPMC Somerset Somerset $262.80 $0.30 – $328.50
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $582.00 $0.18 – $0.90

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