Ghs IV thrombolytics - cerebral at UPMC Hamot

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$3,456.60

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.

$5,761.00

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.

$340.00 with United Healthcare vs $4,608.80 with InterGroup — 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
United Healthcare Commercial $340.00 ↓ -90%
Fidelis Medicare $364.97 ↓ -89%
Aetna Medicare $372.27 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $372.56 ↓ -89%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $375.92 ↓ -89%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $383.22 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Medicare $390.52 ↓ -89%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $394.13 ↓ -89%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $394.17 ↓ -89%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $394.17 ↓ -89%
Cigna Medicare $394.17 ↓ -89%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $459.94 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $544.04 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $546.17 ↓ -84%
Independent Health Commercial $569.15 ↓ -84%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $642.37 ↓ -81%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $816.75 ↓ -76%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $864.15 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $1,440.25 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $1,650.38 ↓ -52%
Cigna New Business ASO $1,728.30 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $1,728.30 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $1,901.13 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $2,304.40 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $2,304.40 ↓ -33%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $2,640.59 ↓ -24%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $3,168.55 ↓ -8%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $3,168.55 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $3,744.65 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $4,032.70 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $4,032.70 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $4,608.80 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $4,608.80 ↑ +33%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Ghs IV thrombolytics - cerebral at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $544.20 $322.49 – $725.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $3,883.80 $114.10 – $5,825.70
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,295.40 $174.51 – $1,835.15
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,295.40 $265.80 – $1,835.15
UPMC East Monroeville $2,286.00 $250.33 – $3,048.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,635.60 $286.79 – $642.37
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,295.40 $265.80 – $672.25
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $2,423.40 $245.48 – $642.37

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