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Carmustine 100 mg intravenous powder for solution at UPMC Northwest

100 Fairfield Drive, Seneca, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1619069440

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$287.40

Cash price

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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.

$5,016.70

Gross charge

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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.

$150.56 with UPMC Health Plan vs $719.09 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $150.56 ↓ -48%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $172.97 ↓ -40%
Aetna EBR ASO $191.60 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $191.60 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $216.26 ↓ -25%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $238.46 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $238.46 ↓ -17%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $238.46 ↓ -17%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $238.46 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $244.14 ↓ -15%
Aetna Medicare $245.61 ↓ -15%
Aetna of PA Medicare $250.38 ↓ -13%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $250.38 ↓ -13%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $257.51 ↓ -10%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $257.54 ↓ -10%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $257.54 ↓ -10%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $262.31 ↓ -9%
Aetna EBR FI $277.82 ↓ -3%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $287.40 ↑ +0%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $293.30 ↑ +2%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $295.54 ↑ +3%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $301.77 ↑ +5%
Cigna New Business ASO $301.77 ↑ +5%
InterGroup PPO $311.35 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $335.30 ↑ +17%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $344.88 ↑ +20%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $383.20 ↑ +33%
Humana Commercial $407.15 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $583.64 ↑ +103%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $719.09 ↑ +150%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Carmustine 100 mg intravenous powder for solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Muncy Muncy $21,846.60 $238.46 – $32,769.90
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,713.80 $150.56 – $723.35
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $2,713.80 $150.56 – $3,844.55
UPMC Somerset Somerset $1,582.20 $57.58 – $238.46
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $21,846.60 $238.46 – $32,769.90
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $2,713.80 $238.46 – $3,844.55
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh not published $150.56 – $4,515.03
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $150.56 – $4,264.19

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