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Deferoxamine 500 mg solution for injection at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$234.40
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.
$311.00
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.
$5.69 with UPMC Health Plan vs $149.79 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 | $5.69 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $6.64 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $6.69 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $6.86 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $7.27 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $7.43 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $7.43 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $9.01 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $9.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $10.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $10.62 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $10.62 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $11.08 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $13.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $18.59 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $19.42 | ↓ -92% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $21.24 | ↓ -91% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $21.24 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Commercial | $22.57 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $55.93 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $56.21 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $74.90 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $75.28 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $149.79 | ↓ -36% |
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Deferoxamine 500 mg solution for injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $112.80 | $5.69 – $74.80 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $112.80 | $5.69 – $159.80 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $112.80 | $9.01 – $159.80 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $5.69 – $23.89 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $43.20 | $9.01 – $64.80 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $20.40 | $3.03 – $19.04 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $43.20 | $9.01 – $64.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $5.69 – $49.93 |