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Floxuridine injection 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

$8,522.40

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.

$14,204.00

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.

$221.73 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $12,073.40 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $221.73 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $448.80 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $461.56 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $601.07 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $618.16 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $1,202.14 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $2,606.43 ↓ -69%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $4,128.02 ↓ -52%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $4,128.02 ↓ -52%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $4,128.02 ↓ -52%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $4,128.02 ↓ -52%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $4,375.70 ↓ -49%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $4,458.26 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare Medicare $4,458.26 ↓ -48%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $4,458.26 ↓ -48%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4,458.26 ↓ -48%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4,458.26 ↓ -48%
Aetna Medicare $4,540.82 ↓ -47%
Aetna of PA Medicare $4,540.82 ↓ -47%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4,641.87 ↓ -46%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $5,077.46 ↓ -40%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $5,397.52 ↓ -37%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $9,232.60 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $9,942.80 ↑ +17%
Fidelis Medicare $10,653.00 ↑ +25%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $10,653.00 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $11,363.20 ↑ +33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $11,363.20 ↑ +33%
SelectCare Commercial $11,363.20 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO $11,363.20 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $12,073.40 ↑ +42%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $12,073.40 ↑ +42%
Humana Commercial $12,073.40 ↑ +42%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Floxuridine injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $8,522.40 $221.73 – $9,460.50
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $8,522.40 $217.27 – $12,073.40
UPMC Muncy Muncy $555.60 $138.90 – $4,128.02
UPMC Somerset Somerset $2,184.00 $217.41 – $4,128.02
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $555.60 $166.68 – $4,128.02

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