Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$4,067.40
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.
$6,779.00
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.
$59.60 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,834.18 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/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $59.60 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $60.20 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $60.20 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $60.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Medicare | $60.80 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $61.70 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $61.70 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $62.35 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $63.21 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $65.02 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $65.02 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $65.58 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $77.31 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $86.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $118.25 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $118.25 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $150.50 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $161.25 | ↓ -96% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $172.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Commercial | $172.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $172.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $172.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $172.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $176.30 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,241.02 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,710.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,710.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,710.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,710.00 | ↓ -58% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,834.18 | ↓ -30% |
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Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $8,582.40 | $82.85 – $8,582.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $9,437.60 | $174.98 – $10,617.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $939.60 | $96.72 – $775.95 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $939.60 | $137.94 – $1,241.02 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $9,437.60 | $83.64 – $9,437.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $10,588.80 | $82.85 – $1,748.83 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $9,437.60 | $215.02 – $523.77 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $939.60 | $480.12 – $1,241.02 |