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Interferon beta-1a 30 mcg/0.5 ml im injection (wrapper) at UPMC St. Margaret
815 Freeport Road, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1790795359
$33.60
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.
$56.00
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.
$14.11 with Aetna vs $247.92 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $14.11 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $14.46 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $15.34 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $15.68 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $15.68 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $21.28 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $22.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $22.40 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $27.47 | ↓ -18% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $30.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $32.14 | ↓ -4% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $39.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $44.80 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $44.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $47.60 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $50.85 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $61.84 | ↑ +84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $63.61 | ↑ +89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $63.61 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $64.79 | ↑ +93% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $92.56 | ↑ +175% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $93.04 | ↑ +177% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $123.96 | ↑ +269% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $124.60 | ↑ +271% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $247.92 | ↑ +638% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Interferon beta-1a 30 mcg/0.5 ml im injection (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,752.20 | $31.84 – $137.70 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,988.80 | $26.18 – $65.45 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,318.40 | $22.55 – $64.79 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,403.20 | $53.42 – $159.80 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $4,959.00 | $31.52 – $4,365.75 |