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Canakinumab injection at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$257.40
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.
$429.00
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.
$89.41 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,451.33 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 Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $89.41 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $108.11 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $110.81 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $117.55 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $120.12 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $120.12 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $122.26 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $141.60 | ↓ -45% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $141.60 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $148.68 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $152.91 | ↓ -41% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $152.93 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $155.76 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $163.02 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $171.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $171.60 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $174.17 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $188.18 | ↓ -27% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $300.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $343.20 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $343.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $364.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $541.86 | ↑ +111% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $544.64 | ↑ +112% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $725.67 | ↑ +182% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $729.43 | ↑ +183% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $1,451.33 | ↑ +464% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Canakinumab injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $10,902.60 | $140.18 – $13,628.25 |