Calcium gluconate 2 gram/100 ml in sodium chloride,iso-osm IV solution at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$0.80
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.
$1.00
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.
$0.05 with UPMC Health Plan vs $0.80 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 | $0.05 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $0.09 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $0.09 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $0.09 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $0.09 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $0.09 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.10 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $0.10 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $0.33 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $0.37 | ↓ -54% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $0.50 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $0.50 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $0.50 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $0.53 | ↓ -34% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $0.55 | ↓ -31% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $0.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Calcium gluconate 2 gram/100 ml in sodium chloride,iso-osm IV solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $58.00 | $0.09 – $30.78 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $175.40 | $7.80 – $28.00 |
| WellSpan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital | York PA 17403 | $184.20 | $7.80 – $51.20 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $17.67 | $0.15 – $0.15 |
| WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital | Waynesboro | $58.00 | $6.30 – $28.00 |
| WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital | Lebanon | $222.80 | $0.09 – $25.60 |
| WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital | Gettysburg | $184.20 | $7.80 – $28.00 |