Penicillin g benzathine 1,200,000 unit/2 ml intramuscular syringe at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$373.80
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.
$623.00
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.
$9.29 with UPMC Work Partners vs $80.46 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.
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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $9.29 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $9.78 | ↓ -97% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $12.50 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $12.50 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $13.25 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $13.75 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $18.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $20.00 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $25.22 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $30.01 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $30.01 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $30.01 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $30.01 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $30.60 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $31.11 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $32.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $32.41 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $32.41 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $32.41 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $32.41 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $36.91 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $80.46 | ↓ -78% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Penicillin g benzathine 1,200,000 unit/2 ml intramuscular syringe at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $156.60 | $7.55 – $31.51 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $96.00 | $18.91 – $182.55 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $948.00 | $24.67 – $71.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $96.00 | $16.28 – $182.55 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $526.20 | $8.73 – $58.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $274.80 | $9.78 – $32.41 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $96.00 | $18.95 – $32.41 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $96.00 | $29.71 – $182.55 |