Injection, pentamidine iseth at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$1,222.20
Cash price 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.
$2,037.00
Gross charge 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.
$210.58 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,766.46 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $210.58 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $366.66 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $509.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $659.47 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $665.69 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $678.22 | ↓ -45% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $774.06 | ↓ -37% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $883.23 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $908.34 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,018.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,120.35 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,137.30 | ↓ -7% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,324.05 | ↑ +8% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,425.90 | ↑ +17% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $1,527.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $1,527.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $1,629.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,629.60 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $1,629.60 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $1,629.60 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $1,731.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,731.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $1,731.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,766.46 | ↑ +45% |
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Injection, pentamidine iseth at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,222.20 | $109.61 – $703.42 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $980.00 | $208.59 – $555.45 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,222.20 | $210.58 – $1,020.74 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $508.80 | $210.58 – $863.14 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $1,222.20 | $206.35 – $206.35 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $499.20 | $208.59 – $703.42 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $508.80 | $76.07 – $703.42 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,286.40 | $99.65 – $111.38 |