Chlorothiazide sodium 500 mg intravenous solution at UPMC Hanover

300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981

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

$178.20

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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.

$297.00

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.

$4.94 with Capital Blue Cross vs $171.10 with Cigna — 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
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $4.94 ↓ -97%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $4.94 ↓ -97%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $6.29 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare $9.20 ↓ -95%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $12.93 ↓ -93%
Aetna ACO $14.77 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Commercial $16.02 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Commercial $17.02 ↓ -90%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $17.67 ↓ -90%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $17.67 ↓ -90%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $17.67 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $18.20 ↓ -90%
Aetna Commercial $18.93 ↓ -89%
CareFirst Commercial $22.10 ↓ -88%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $22.10 ↓ -88%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $22.62 ↓ -87%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $39.45 ↓ -78%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $39.45 ↓ -78%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $39.45 ↓ -78%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $40.24 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $43.39 ↓ -76%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $48.52 ↓ -73%
Cigna Commercial $171.10 ↓ -4%

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Chlorothiazide sodium 500 mg intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,084.00 $14.96 – $1,084.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $280.80 $24.91 – $315.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $178.20 $3.56 – $171.10
UPMC Cole Coudersport $156.00 $39.45 – $208.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $178.20 $5.20 – $48.52
UPMC East Monroeville $88.80 $13.28 – $88.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $1,217.60 $14.96 – $330.38
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,060.80 $24.91 – $39.45

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