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Injection, fulvestrant 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

$9,219.60

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.

$15,366.00

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.

$4.25 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,305.60 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 Health Plan Managed Medicaid $4.25 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $6.73 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $6.73 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $6.73 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $6.73 ↓ -100%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $7.13 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $7.27 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Medicare $7.27 ↓ -100%
Cigna Lifesource Medicare Transplant $7.27 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $7.27 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $7.27 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $7.40 ↓ -100%
Aetna of PA Medicare $7.40 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $8.28 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $168.34 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $339.02 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $348.66 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $454.05 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $466.96 ↓ -95%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $501.96 ↓ -95%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $583.68 ↓ -94%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $908.10 ↓ -90%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $998.40 ↓ -89%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $1,075.20 ↓ -88%
Fidelis Medicare $1,152.00 ↓ -88%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $1,152.00 ↓ -88%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $1,228.80 ↓ -87%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,228.80 ↓ -87%
SelectCare Commercial $1,228.80 ↓ -87%
Multiplan PPO $1,228.80 ↓ -87%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $1,305.60 ↓ -86%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $1,305.60 ↓ -86%
Humana Commercial $1,305.60 ↓ -86%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Injection, fulvestrant at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $3,940.80 $4.25 – $166.75
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $4,829.40 $4.25 – $250.75
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $912.80 $4.25 – $168.34
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $921.60 $6.73 – $1,305.60
UPMC Muncy Muncy $4,423.20 $6.73 – $663.30
UPMC Northwest Seneca $6,048.60 $4.25 – $127.10
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $4,423.20 $6.73 – $663.30
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $589.60 $6.73 – $663.30

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