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Interferon beta-1a 30 mcg/0.5 ml im injection (wrapper) at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$5,318.40
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.
$8,864.00
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.
$22.55 with UPMC Work Partners vs $269.64 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $22.55 | ↓ -100% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $26.22 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $32.14 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $32.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $37.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $44.85 | ↓ -99% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $48.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $51.75 | ↓ -99% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $51.75 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $55.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $55.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $55.20 | ↓ -99% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $55.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $58.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Commercial | $58.65 | ↓ -99% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $58.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $62.43 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $63.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $63.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $63.61 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $63.61 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $63.61 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $64.79 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $64.79 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $100.67 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $103.53 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $134.82 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $138.66 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $269.64 | ↓ -95% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Interferon beta-1a 30 mcg/0.5 ml im injection (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,752.20 | $31.84 – $137.70 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,988.80 | $26.18 – $65.45 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,403.20 | $53.42 – $159.80 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,959.00 | $31.52 – $4,365.75 |