Acetazolamide 500 mg solution for injection at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$100.80
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.
$126.00
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.
$12.53 with UPMC Health Plan vs $100.80 with Private Health Care Systems — 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $12.53 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $19.84 | ↓ -80% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $19.84 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $19.84 | ↓ -80% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $19.84 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $24.41 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $32.63 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $46.85 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $50.60 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $63.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $63.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $63.00 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $64.86 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $66.78 | ↓ -34% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $69.30 | ↓ -31% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $100.80 | ↑ +0% |
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Acetazolamide 500 mg solution for injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $128.80 | $12.53 – $144.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $25.80 | $4.25 – $39.65 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $45.60 | $19.84 – $60.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $25.80 | $6.20 – $84.25 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $301.60 | $12.53 – $301.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $222.40 | $12.53 – $76.56 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $195.20 | $12.53 – $131.32 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $25.80 | $19.84 – $39.65 |