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Injection glatiramer acetate at UPMC Western Psychiatric
3811 Ohara St, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1174962435
$775.80
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.
$1,293.00
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.
$70.55 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $401.20 with Health Payors Organization — 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 | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $70.55 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Narrow Network | $140.18 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Fully Insured | $155.76 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $165.20 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $180.69 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $184.04 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $283.20 | ↓ -63% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $354.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $401.20 | ↓ -48% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection glatiramer acetate at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,279.20 | $55.77 – $361.80 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,207.20 | $50.92 – $401.20 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $775.80 | $48.50 – $401.20 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $318.40 | $53.35 – $338.30 |