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Colistimethate sodium inj at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
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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.
$25.68
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.
$6.42 with Aetna vs $356.75 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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| Aetna | Medicare | $6.42 | — |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $6.47 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $6.63 | — |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $7.04 | — |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $7.19 | — |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $7.19 | — |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $9.76 | — |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $10.27 | — |
| Cigna | Commercial | $10.27 | — |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $12.84 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $13.06 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $14.12 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $16.06 | — |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $17.98 | — |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $20.54 | — |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $20.54 | — |
| Humana | Commercial | $21.83 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $46.26 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $133.20 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $133.88 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $178.38 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $179.30 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $356.75 | — |
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Colistimethate sodium inj at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $206.40 | $6.42 – $45.82 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,284.60 | $8.25 – $249.90 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,284.60 | $8.25 – $362.10 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $1,284.60 | $13.06 – $1,819.85 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $129.00 | $13.06 – $193.50 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $16.80 | $1.68 – $45.36 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $129.00 | $13.06 – $193.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $6.42 – $118.92 |