Epoprostenol (arginine) 1 mg in 50 ml ns inhalation syringe - cnr 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

$31.20

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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.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$52.00

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.

$0.57 with Capital Blue Cross vs $22.50 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 $0.57 ↓ -98%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $0.57 ↓ -98%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $0.73 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $1.06 ↓ -97%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1.49 ↓ -95%
Aetna ACO $1.70 ↓ -95%
United Healthcare Commercial $1.85 ↓ -94%
Geisinger Commercial $1.96 ↓ -94%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $2.04 ↓ -93%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $2.04 ↓ -93%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $2.04 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2.10 ↓ -93%
Aetna Commercial $2.18 ↓ -93%
CareFirst Commercial $2.55 ↓ -92%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $2.55 ↓ -92%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $2.61 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $16.20 ↓ -48%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $16.20 ↓ -48%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $16.20 ↓ -48%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $16.52 ↓ -47%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $17.82 ↓ -43%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $19.92 ↓ -36%
Cigna Commercial $22.50 ↓ -28%

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Epoprostenol (arginine) 1 mg in 50 ml ns inhalation syringe - cnr at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $505.20 $10.23 – $204.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $31.20 $0.41 – $22.50
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $31.20 $0.60 – $49.55
UPMC East Monroeville $557.40 $10.23 – $248.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $580.80 $10.23 – $43.44
UPMC Northwest Seneca $389.40 $10.23 – $77.24
UPMC Jameson New Castle $197.60 $10.23 – $30.28
UPMC Lititz Lititz $31.20 $16.20 – $22.50

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