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Thiamine hcl (vitamin b1) 100 mg/ml injection solution 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

$64.80

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.

$108.00

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.

$0.51 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $45.90 with InterGroup — 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare Advantage $0.51 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $1.15 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $1.59 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $1.63 ↓ -97%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1.82 ↓ -97%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1.82 ↓ -97%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $1.82 ↓ -97%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $1.82 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $2.13 ↓ -97%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $2.19 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2.23 ↓ -97%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $2.73 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $4.25 ↓ -93%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $9.72 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicare $13.50 ↓ -79%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $17.65 ↓ -73%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $20.52 ↓ -68%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $27.00 ↓ -58%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $35.10 ↓ -46%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $37.80 ↓ -42%
Fidelis Medicare $40.50 ↓ -38%
InterGroup InterGroup Services Corporation $40.50 ↓ -38%
Health Coalition Partners Intergroup $43.20 ↓ -33%
Multiplan PPO $43.20 ↓ -33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $43.20 ↓ -33%
SelectCare Commercial $43.20 ↓ -33%
Health Payors Organization Commercial $45.90 ↓ -29%
Humana Commercial $45.90 ↓ -29%
InterGroup Approved National Affiliated PPO Business $45.90 ↓ -29%

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Thiamine hcl (vitamin b1) 100 mg/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $36.40 $0.50 – $8.97
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $64.80 $0.51 – $4.25
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $43.80 $0.51 – $8.47
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $64.80 $0.50 – $91.80
UPMC Muncy Muncy $42.60 $1.82 – $23.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $38.20 $1.15 – $8.47
UPMC Somerset Somerset $2.40 $0.50 – $2.85
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $42.60 $1.82 – $23.40

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