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Epoetin alfa in ns IV syringe 100 unit/ml (neo/ped) - cnr at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$255.20
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.
$319.00
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.
$5.39 with UPMC Health Plan vs $129.10 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 | $5.39 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $7.37 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $8.54 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $8.54 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $8.97 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $9.22 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $9.22 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $9.39 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $10.51 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $26.03 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $31.00 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $31.77 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $33.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $34.44 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $34.44 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $46.74 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $48.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $48.45 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $49.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $49.20 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $57.34 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $64.55 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $64.88 | ↓ -75% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $86.10 | ↓ -66% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $98.40 | ↓ -61% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $98.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | Commercial | $104.55 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $129.10 | ↓ -49% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Epoetin alfa in ns IV syringe 100 unit/ml (neo/ped) - cnr at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $98.40 | $5.39 – $92.70 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $143.40 | $5.39 – $201.45 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $143.40 | $8.54 – $201.45 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $111.20 | $5.39 – $109.17 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $641.40 | $8.45 – $24.75 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $160.00 | $8.54 – $178.20 |