Droperidol 2.5 mg/ml injection solution at UPMC Altoona

620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$22.60

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.

$28.25

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.

$4.74 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $36.57 with United Healthcare — 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $4.74 ↓ -79%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $4.82 ↓ -79%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $5.25 ↓ -77%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.58 ↓ -75%
Cigna Commercial $7.50 ↓ -67%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $7.50 ↓ -67%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $7.50 ↓ -67%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $7.63 ↓ -66%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $7.63 ↓ -66%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $7.63 ↓ -66%
Geisinger Medicaid $7.63 ↓ -66%
Aetna Commercial $7.95 ↓ -65%
Geisinger Commercial $8.25 ↓ -63%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $9.39 ↓ -58%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $12.00 ↓ -47%
United Healthcare Commercial $36.57 ↑ +62%

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Droperidol 2.5 mg/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $2.40 $0.55 – $12.87
UPMC Cole Coudersport $6.60 $3.05 – $8.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $2.40 $0.80 – $9.39
UPMC East Monroeville $20.20 $2.99 – $20.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $22.80 $4.74 – $28.12
UPMC Northwest Seneca $22.80 $4.82 – $12.30
UPMC Hanover Hanover $2.40 $7.63 – $12.87
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $22.80 $4.82 – $12.19

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