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Teriparatide injection at UPMC Western Psychiatric
3811 Ohara St, Pittsburgh, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1174962435
$36.75
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.
$61.25
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.
$14.66 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $52.06 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 | $14.66 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $15.31 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Narrow Network | $18.19 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Fully Insured | $20.21 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $21.44 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $30.62 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $36.75 | ↑ +0% |
| Fidelis | Medicare | $45.94 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Payors Organization | Commercial | $52.06 | ↑ +42% |
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Teriparatide injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $67.80 | $14.96 – $1,940.51 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $5,429.40 | $10.98 – $1,848.10 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $6,598.80 | $14.96 – $2,032.91 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $53.80 | $16.75 – $1,940.51 |