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Inj, bupivacaine liposome at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$7.20
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.
$9.00
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.
$0.93 with UPMC Health Plan vs $6.37 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 | $0.93 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1.21 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $1.26 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1.29 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $1.37 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $1.40 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $1.40 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1.47 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1.47 | ↓ -80% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1.47 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1.51 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1.51 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1.54 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1.81 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $1.90 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2.38 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2.39 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $2.50 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3.18 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3.20 | ↓ -56% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3.50 | ↓ -51% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4.00 | ↓ -44% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $4.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Commercial | $4.25 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $6.37 | ↓ -12% |
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Inj, bupivacaine liposome at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $7.20 | $0.82 – $4.50 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4.35 | $0.93 – $3.40 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5.40 | $0.83 – $5.95 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $4.35 | $1.47 – $6.16 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $7.60 | $1.35 – $8.10 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2.40 | $0.93 – $3.40 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $13.20 | $0.81 – $16.50 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $7.60 | $1.47 – $8.10 |