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Paliperidone 117 mg/0.75 ml inj at UPMC Presbyterian
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 119473412
$38.85
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.
$64.75
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.
$9.54 with UPMC Health Plan vs $2,283.23 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) — 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 Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $9.54 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $13.55 | ↓ -65% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $15.11 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $15.11 | ↓ -61% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $15.11 | ↓ -61% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $15.11 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $16.02 | ↓ -59% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $16.32 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $16.32 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Medicare Transplant | $16.32 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $16.32 | ↓ -58% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $16.32 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $16.62 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $16.62 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $18.59 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $20.92 | ↓ -46% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $24.32 | ↓ -37% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $41.60 | ↑ +7% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $42.43 | ↑ +9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $43.64 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $44.80 | ↑ +15% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $48.00 | ↑ +24% |
| InterGroup | InterGroup Services Corporation | $48.00 | ↑ +24% |
| Health Coalition Partners | Intergroup | $51.20 | ↑ +32% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $51.20 | ↑ +32% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $51.20 | ↑ +32% |
| Multiplan | PPO | $51.20 | ↑ +32% |
| InterGroup | Approved National Affiliated PPO Business | $54.40 | ↑ +40% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $54.40 | ↑ +40% |
| Humana | Commercial | $54.40 | ↑ +40% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $56.83 | ↑ +46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $58.44 | ↑ +50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $113.65 | ↑ +193% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,283.23 | ↑ +5777% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Paliperidone 117 mg/0.75 ml inj at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $84.00 | $9.54 – $2,625.72 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,138.20 | $9.54 – $2,397.39 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $99.20 | $9.54 – $2,397.39 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $9,557.40 | $7.95 – $47.70 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $9,557.40 | $9.63 – $2,283.23 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,391.40 | $13.28 – $1,588.50 |