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Hydrocortisone in ns IV syringe 1 mg/ml (neo/ped) - cnr at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$40.80
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.
$253.40
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.
$8.25 with Aetna vs $46.17 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 | $8.25 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $8.32 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $8.52 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $9.04 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $9.23 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $9.24 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $9.24 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $12.54 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $13.20 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $13.20 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $13.46 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $16.50 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $17.24 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $17.33 | ↓ -58% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $19.78 | ↓ -52% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $21.31 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $23.08 | ↓ -43% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $23.10 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $23.20 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $25.17 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $26.21 | ↓ -36% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $26.40 | ↓ -35% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $26.40 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | Commercial | $28.05 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $46.17 | ↑ +13% |
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Hydrocortisone in ns IV syringe 1 mg/ml (neo/ped) - cnr at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $27.00 | $5.75 – $26.31 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $256.80 | $9.23 – $34.85 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $159.60 | $9.23 – $75.65 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $53.85 | $9.05 – $76.29 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $583.20 | $12.75 – $76.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $42.80 | $8.25 – $28.05 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $22.20 | $6.06 – $21.31 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $583.20 | $14.58 – $72.90 |