Folic acid 5 mg/ml injection solution at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$3.00
Cash price 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.
$5.00
Gross charge 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.
$0.06 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $2.61 with Wellspan Population Health — 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $0.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.06 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $0.06 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $0.06 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $0.07 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.08 | ↓ -97% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $0.57 | ↓ -81% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $0.57 | ↓ -81% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $0.73 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1.06 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1.49 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1.70 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1.85 | ↓ -38% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1.96 | ↓ -35% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2.04 | ↓ -32% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2.04 | ↓ -32% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2.04 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2.10 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2.18 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2.34 | ↓ -22% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $2.55 | ↓ -15% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $2.55 | ↓ -15% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $2.61 | ↓ -13% |
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Folic acid 5 mg/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $3.00 | $0.06 – $2.55 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3.00 | $0.06 – $2.55 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $3.00 | $0.06 – $0.07 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $3.00 | $0.06 – $0.08 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $3.00 | $0.06 – $0.06 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $58.40 | $0.07 – $105.00 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $177.00 | $30.00 – $105.00 |
| WellSpan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital | York PA 17403 | $185.80 | $30.00 – $105.00 |