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Cytarabine 20 mg/ml injection 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

$320.40

Cash price

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What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

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$534.00

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.

$0.52 with UPMC Health Plan vs $108.84 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.

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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 $0.52 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $0.83 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $0.83 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1.02 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $4.63 ↓ -99%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $4.67 ↓ -99%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4.79 ↓ -99%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $5.08 ↓ -98%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $5.19 ↓ -98%
Cigna New Business ASO $5.19 ↓ -98%
Aetna EBR FI $7.04 ↓ -98%
Aetna EBR ASO $7.41 ↓ -98%
Cigna Commercial $7.41 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $9.27 ↓ -97%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $12.97 ↓ -96%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $14.82 ↓ -95%
SelectCare Commercial $14.82 ↓ -95%
Humana Commercial $15.75 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $27.02 ↓ -92%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $40.63 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $40.84 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $54.42 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $54.70 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $108.84 ↓ -66%

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Cytarabine 20 mg/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $112.20 $0.52 – $70.55
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $112.20 $0.83 – $158.95
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh not published $0.52 – $26.77
UPMC Muncy Muncy $70.80 $0.83 – $20.70
UPMC Northwest Seneca $66.20 $0.52 – $36.28
UPMC Somerset Somerset $0.60 $0.34 – $26.50
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $70.80 $0.83 – $20.70
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $28.80 $0.83 – $20.70

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