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Hocm 250-299mg/ml iodine,1ml 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

$441.60

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.

$736.00

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.

$0.15 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1.57 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 $0.15 ↓ -100%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $0.18 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $0.19 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $0.24 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.24 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $0.24 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $0.24 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $0.25 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $0.30 ↓ -100%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $0.33 ↓ -100%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $0.38 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $0.50 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $0.59 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $0.60 ↓ -100%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $0.65 ↓ -100%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $0.70 ↓ -100%
Fidelis Medicare $0.75 ↓ -100%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $0.75 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $0.79 ↓ -100%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $0.80 ↓ -100%
Multiplan PPO $0.80 ↓ -100%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $0.80 ↓ -100%
SelectCare Commercial $0.80 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $0.81 ↓ -100%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $0.85 ↓ -100%
Humana Commercial $0.85 ↓ -100%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $0.85 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $1.57 ↓ -100%

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Hocm 250-299mg/ml iodine,1ml at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $13.80 $0.15 – $0.90
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2.70 $0.15 – $3.83
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $34.80 $0.15 – $0.85
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $2.70 $0.18 – $3.83
UPMC Northwest Seneca $0.60 $0.15 – $0.85

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