Mayo lacosamide therapeutic drug level at UPMC Hamot

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

$223.20

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.

$372.00

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.

$15.17 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $297.60 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $15.17 ↓ -93%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $26.79 ↓ -88%
Fidelis Medicare $27.11 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Commercial $27.11 ↓ -88%
Aetna Medicare $27.65 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $27.67 ↓ -88%
Independent Health Medicare Advantage $27.92 ↓ -87%
Independent Health Commercial $27.92 ↓ -87%
Wellcare Medicare Advantage $27.92 ↓ -87%
BCBS of Western NY Medicare Advantage $28.47 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Medicare $29.01 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $29.28 ↓ -87%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $29.28 ↓ -87%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $29.28 ↓ -87%
Cigna Medicare $29.28 ↓ -87%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $37.13 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $45.83 ↓ -79%
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $55.80 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $70.33 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $73.33 ↓ -67%
Aetna Commercial $93.00 ↓ -58%
Cigna New Business ASO $111.60 ↓ -50%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $111.60 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $122.76 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $148.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $148.80 ↓ -33%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $204.60 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $204.60 ↓ -8%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $241.80 ↑ +8%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $260.40 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $260.40 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $297.60 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Beech Street $297.60 ↑ +33%

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Mayo lacosamide therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $175.20 $15.17 – $233.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $88.20 $9.78 – $132.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $69.60 $14.91 – $98.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $69.60 $21.67 – $140.84
UPMC East Monroeville $203.40 $15.31 – $271.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $141.00 $24.59 – $29.28
UPMC Hanover Hanover $69.60 $21.67 – $140.84
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $134.40 $24.27 – $29.28

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