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Gamma globulin 1 cc inj 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

$106.20

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.

$177.00

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.

$3.90 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $60.31 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 $3.90 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $12.22 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $12.57 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $16.37 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $16.84 ↓ -84%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $17.32 ↓ -84%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $20.14 ↓ -81%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $30.96 ↓ -71%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $32.74 ↓ -69%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $34.45 ↓ -68%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $37.10 ↓ -65%
Fidelis Medicare $39.75 ↓ -63%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $39.75 ↓ -63%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $42.40 ↓ -60%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $42.40 ↓ -60%
SelectCare Commercial $42.40 ↓ -60%
Multiplan PPO $42.40 ↓ -60%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $45.05 ↓ -58%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $45.05 ↓ -58%
Humana Commercial $45.05 ↓ -58%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $49.03 ↓ -54%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $49.03 ↓ -54%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $49.03 ↓ -54%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $49.03 ↓ -54%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $51.97 ↓ -51%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $52.95 ↓ -50%
United Healthcare Medicare $52.95 ↓ -50%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $52.95 ↓ -50%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $52.95 ↓ -50%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $52.95 ↓ -50%
Aetna Medicare $53.93 ↓ -49%
Aetna of PA Medicare $53.93 ↓ -49%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $60.31 ↓ -43%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Gamma globulin 1 cc inj at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Muncy Muncy $381.00 $47.40 – $284.40
UPMC Somerset Somerset $31.20 $3.83 – $49.03
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $381.00 $49.03 – $284.40
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $189.60 $49.03 – $284.40

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