Dimethyl sulfoxide 50% 50 ml 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

$7.80

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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.

$13.00

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.

$2.47 with Capital Blue Cross vs $2,663.66 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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

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 $2.47 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $2.47 ↓ -68%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $3.15 ↓ -60%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $6.46 ↓ -17%
Aetna ACO $7.38 ↓ -5%
United Healthcare Commercial $8.01 ↑ +3%
Geisinger Commercial $8.51 ↑ +9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $8.83 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $8.83 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $8.83 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $9.10 ↑ +17%
Aetna Commercial $9.46 ↑ +21%
CareFirst Commercial $11.05 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $11.05 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $11.31 ↑ +45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $741.36 ↑ +9405%
Humana Medicare $748.85 ↑ +9501%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $748.85 ↑ +9501%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $748.85 ↑ +9501%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $748.85 ↑ +9501%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $763.82 ↑ +9693%
Aetna Medicare $781.05 ↑ +9913%
Cigna Medicare $786.29 ↑ +9981%
Geisinger Medicare $786.29 ↑ +9981%
United Healthcare Medicare $801.27 ↑ +10173%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $808.76 ↑ +10269%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $823.73 ↑ +10461%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $921.08 ↑ +11709%
Cigna Commercial $959.96 ↑ +12207%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $1,198.16 ↑ +15261%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $2,484.23 ↑ +31749%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $2,663.66 ↑ +34049%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Dimethyl sulfoxide 50% 50 ml at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Northwest Seneca $208.80 $130.16 – $808.76
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $324.00 $50.15 – $823.74
UPMC Muncy Muncy $3,160.80 $748.85 – $823.73
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $3,160.80 $748.85 – $823.73
Uniontown Hospital Uniontown $1,508.50 $748.88 – $1,744.89
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh not published $50.63 – $823.74

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