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Inj mepivacaine hcl/10 ml at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$14.40
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.
$18.00
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.
$0.54 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $9.35 with Humana — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $0.54 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1.57 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1.58 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2.10 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2.11 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $2.50 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2.77 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2.84 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $3.01 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $3.08 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $3.08 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $3.95 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $3.95 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $4.18 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $4.20 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $4.40 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4.40 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4.86 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5.50 | ↓ -62% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $7.70 | ↓ -47% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $8.80 | ↓ -39% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $8.80 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | Commercial | $9.35 | ↓ -35% |
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Inj mepivacaine hcl/10 ml at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $13.80 | $0.54 – $9.90 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $105.00 | $0.54 – $7.65 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $99.00 | $0.54 – $21.25 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $33.30 | $0.53 – $21.46 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $31.80 | $1.50 – $9.00 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $31.80 | $1.80 – $9.00 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $8.60 | $2.70 – $9.00 |