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Administration vaccine hepatitis b at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$12.00
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.
$20.00
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.
$3.96 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $48.39 with Aetna — 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 | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $3.96 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $5.04 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $5.48 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $5.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $5.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $7.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $8.00 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $8.00 | ↓ -33% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $11.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $11.40 | ↓ -5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $11.46 | ↓ -5% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $14.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $15.27 | ↑ +27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $15.35 | ↑ +28% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $16.00 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $16.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $17.00 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $28.24 | ↑ +135% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $30.54 | ↑ +155% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $37.98 | ↑ +217% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $46.19 | ↑ +285% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $47.50 | ↑ +296% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $47.51 | ↑ +296% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $48.39 | ↑ +303% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Administration vaccine hepatitis b at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $12.00 | $3.92 – $47.51 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $12.00 | $3.96 – $48.39 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $12.00 | $3.60 – $48.39 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $12.60 | $3.15 – $33.09 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $12.00 | $8.00 – $47.51 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $99.00 | $3.88 – $123.75 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $16.00 | $3.60 – $33.09 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $12.00 | $7.96 – $47.50 |