Creatine - sendout at UPMC Horizon-Greenville

110 N Main St, Greenville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225048838

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

$34.20

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.

$57.00

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.

$4.15 with UPMC Health Plan vs $48.45 with Humana — 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $4.15 ↓ -88%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4.58 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $4.69 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare $4.78 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO $4.78 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison MedPLUS $4.87 ↓ -86%
Aetna of PA Medicare $4.87 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $4.87 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare $4.96 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $5.01 ↓ -85%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $5.01 ↓ -85%
Cigna Medicare $5.01 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $5.01 ↓ -85%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $8.71 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission $14.37 ↓ -58%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $16.86 ↓ -51%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care $17.70 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare Compass Exchange $18.81 ↓ -45%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Traditional $19.44 ↓ -43%
Aetna Neighborhood Network $21.09 ↓ -38%
Aetna Home Depot Employer Group $21.77 ↓ -36%
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Access PPO/Blue Preferred HMO/HIC $22.17 ↓ -35%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $22.23 ↓ -35%
United Healthcare All Business $22.23 ↓ -35%
Aetna NBR ASO/FI $22.23 ↓ -35%
Cigna New Business ASO $22.23 ↓ -35%
Aetna EBR ASO $22.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $22.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna Commercial $22.80 ↓ -33%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $31.35 ↓ -8%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $31.35 ↓ -8%
Aetna EBR FI $34.20 ↑ +0%
InterGroup PPO $37.05 ↑ +8%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $37.62 ↑ +10%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $39.90 ↑ +17%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $45.60 ↑ +33%
Prime Net Commercial $46.74 ↑ +37%
Humana Commercial $48.45 ↑ +42%

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Creatine - sendout at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $45.60 $4.58 – $60.80
UPMC East Monroeville $33.60 $4.58 – $44.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $93.00 $4.58 – $8.89
UPMC Northwest Seneca $31.80 $4.21 – $5.01
UPMC Jameson New Castle $43.80 $3.25 – $9.04
UPMC Kane Kane $90.60 $4.58 – $20.03
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $46.80 $4.34 – $8.97
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $46.20 $4.30 – $8.97

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