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Desmopressin 4 mcg/ml injection solution at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$71.60
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.
$745.25
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.
$2.23 with UPMC Health Plan vs $78.59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $2.23 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $3.04 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $3.52 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $3.52 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $3.70 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3.80 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3.80 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3.87 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $10.19 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $19.93 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $22.43 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $22.99 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $24.39 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $24.92 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $24.92 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $29.34 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $29.49 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $33.82 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $35.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $35.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $39.29 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $39.50 | ↓ -45% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $62.30 | ↓ -13% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $71.20 | ↓ -1% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $71.20 | ↓ -1% |
| Humana | Commercial | $75.65 | ↑ +6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $78.59 | ↑ +10% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Desmopressin 4 mcg/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $765.60 | $2.23 – $26.10 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $765.60 | $2.23 – $79.69 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $238.80 | $2.23 – $79.05 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $59.70 | $3.52 – $79.69 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $39.40 | $2.23 – $41.65 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $49.20 | $3.37 – $7.50 |