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Nitroglycerin 50 mg/250 ml (200 mcg/ml) in 5 % dextrose intravenous at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$4.05
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.
$6.75
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.
$0.68 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $5.67 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 | $0.68 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $0.94 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $1.08 | ↓ -73% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1.49 | ↓ -63% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1.49 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $1.49 | ↓ -63% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1.49 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1.50 | ↓ -63% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1.83 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2.12 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2.18 | ↓ -46% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $2.28 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2.83 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2.91 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $3.90 | ↓ -4% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4.20 | ↑ +4% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $4.50 | ↑ +11% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $4.50 | ↑ +11% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $4.80 | ↑ +19% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $4.80 | ↑ +19% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4.80 | ↑ +19% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $4.80 | ↑ +19% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $5.10 | ↑ +26% |
| Humana | Commercial | $5.10 | ↑ +26% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $5.10 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $5.67 | ↑ +40% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Nitroglycerin 50 mg/250 ml (200 mcg/ml) in 5 % dextrose intravenous at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $4.00 | $0.67 – $4.50 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4.05 | $0.68 – $5.74 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $4.00 | $0.68 – $4.25 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $4.05 | $0.66 – $5.74 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $4.00 | $0.75 – $4.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4.00 | $0.94 – $4.25 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $0.60 | $0.34 – $1.49 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $4.00 | $0.90 – $4.50 |