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Carmustine 100 mg intravenous powder for solution at UPMC St. Margaret

815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

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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.

$5,016.70

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.

$150.56 with UPMC Health Plan vs $4,264.19 with Humana — 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $150.56
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $205.89
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $238.46
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $238.46
Aetna of PA Medicare $250.38
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $257.51
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $257.54
Aetna Medicare $262.31
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $284.10
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $293.30
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $653.72
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $657.07
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $875.46
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $880.00
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1,264.21
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,295.81
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $1,374.58
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $1,404.68
Cigna New Business ASO $1,404.68
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $1,750.92
Aetna EBR FI $1,906.35
Aetna EBR ASO $2,006.68
Cigna Commercial $2,006.68
Coventry/First Health Commercial $3,511.69
Private Health Care Systems PPO $4,013.36
SelectCare Commercial $4,013.36
Humana Commercial $4,264.19
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Carmustine 100 mg intravenous powder for solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,713.80 $150.56 – $723.35
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $2,713.80 $150.56 – $3,844.55
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $2,713.80 $238.46 – $3,844.55
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh not published $150.56 – $4,515.03
UPMC Muncy Muncy $21,846.60 $238.46 – $32,769.90
UPMC Northwest Seneca $287.40 $150.56 – $407.15
UPMC Somerset Somerset $1,582.20 $57.58 – $238.46
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $21,846.60 $238.46 – $32,769.90

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