Ramucirumab 10 mg/ml intravenous solution at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$171.00
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.
$285.00
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.
$36.49 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $218.73 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $36.49 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $46.95 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $70.27 | ↓ -59% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $74.36 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $74.36 | ↓ -57% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $74.36 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $74.36 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $75.83 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $77.08 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $79.57 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $80.31 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $80.31 | ↓ -53% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $80.31 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $80.31 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $81.51 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $91.46 | ↓ -47% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $94.50 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $94.50 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $100.17 | ↓ -41% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $103.95 | ↓ -39% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $151.20 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $218.73 | ↑ +28% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ramucirumab 10 mg/ml intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $18,318.00 | $74.36 – $4,884.80 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $3,319.20 | $36.84 – $80.31 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $5,140.20 | $74.36 – $81.79 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $5,140.20 | $74.36 – $81.79 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $13,985.19 | $76.57 – $178.41 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | not published | $48.10 – $156.35 |
| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | not published | $59.70 – $156.35 |