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Cefazolin 10 mg/10 ml (dilution #2) IV desensitization - cnr 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

$20.80

Cash price

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What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

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$26.00

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.

$0.50 with UPMC Health Plan vs $8.50 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 $0.50 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $0.72 ↓ -97%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.80 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $0.80 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $0.80 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $0.98 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $1.02 ↓ -95%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1.04 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $1.12 ↓ -95%
Aetna EBR ASO $1.15 ↓ -94%
Cigna Commercial $1.15 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicaid $1.17 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1.44 ↓ -93%
Aetna EBR FI $1.66 ↓ -92%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $1.72 ↓ -92%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $1.77 ↓ -91%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $1.81 ↓ -91%
Cigna New Business ASO $1.81 ↓ -91%
InterGroup PPO $1.87 ↓ -91%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $2.01 ↓ -90%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $2.07 ↓ -90%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $2.30 ↓ -89%
Humana Commercial $2.44 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $6.90 ↓ -67%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $8.50 ↓ -59%

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Cefazolin 10 mg/10 ml (dilution #2) IV desensitization - cnr at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $15.40 $0.50 – $2.66
UPMC Muncy Muncy $42.00 $0.60 – $3.60
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $189.60 $0.50 – $12.75
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $78.60 $0.50 – $27.20
UPMC Somerset Somerset $8.40 $0.34 – $2.63
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $16.40 $0.50 – $2.68
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $42.00 $0.72 – $3.60
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $19.65 $0.80 – $27.84

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