Orphenadrine citrate 30 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

$21.40

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.

$26.75

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.

$3.09 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $41.97 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 $3.09 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $7.06 ↓ -67%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $9.67 ↓ -55%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $11.19 ↓ -48%
Geisinger Medicaid $11.19 ↓ -48%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $11.19 ↓ -48%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $11.19 ↓ -48%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $11.26 ↓ -47%
Cigna Commercial $13.00 ↓ -39%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $13.00 ↓ -39%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $13.00 ↓ -39%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $13.76 ↓ -36%
Aetna Commercial $13.78 ↓ -36%
Geisinger Commercial $14.30 ↓ -33%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $20.80 ↓ -3%
United Healthcare Commercial $41.97 ↑ +96%

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Orphenadrine citrate 30 mg/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Bedford Everett $55.00 $7.06 – $61.20
UPMC East Monroeville $18.40 $2.75 – $18.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $274.40 $3.09 – $26.43
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $220.00 $7.06 – $13.99
UPMC Jameson New Castle $63.20 $3.14 – $11.30
UPMC Kane Kane $16.80 $11.19 – $23.08
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $366.00 $3.11 – $18.37
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $152.80 $3.11 – $12.43

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