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Succinylcholine chloride 20 mg/ml injection solution (wrapper) 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

$7.60

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.

$9.50

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.

$2.25 with Aetna vs $7.65 with Humana — 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
Aetna Medicare $2.25 ↓ -70%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $3.25 ↓ -57%
Aetna EBR ASO $3.60 ↓ -53%
Cigna Commercial $3.60 ↓ -53%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.50 ↓ -41%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $4.82 ↓ -37%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $4.95 ↓ -35%
Aetna EBR FI $5.22 ↓ -31%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $5.40 ↓ -29%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $5.55 ↓ -27%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $5.67 ↓ -25%
Cigna New Business ASO $5.67 ↓ -25%
InterGroup PPO $5.85 ↓ -23%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $5.94 ↓ -22%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $6.30 ↓ -17%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $6.48 ↓ -15%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $6.86 ↓ -10%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $7.20 ↓ -5%
Humana Commercial $7.65 ↑ +1%

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Succinylcholine chloride 20 mg/ml injection solution (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $4.20 $1.25 – $4.50
UPMC Muncy Muncy $73.20 $1.80 – $10.80
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $53.40 $1.88 – $7.65
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $67.80 $1.88 – $9.35
UPMC Somerset Somerset $4.80 $0.34 – $1.84
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $11.40 $1.88 – $7.65
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $69.60 $1.98 – $9.90
UPMC Western Psychiatric Pittsburgh $6.75 $1.84 – $9.56

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