Alprostadil for injection at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$151.80
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.
$253.00
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.
$0.44 with Capital Blue Cross vs $124.10 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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| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $0.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $0.44 | ↓ -100% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $0.45 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $5.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $5.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $29.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $29.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $35.33 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $36.65 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | ACO | $49.79 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $52.85 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $62.20 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $62.47 | ↓ -59% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $80.30 | ↓ -47% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $94.90 | ↓ -37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $102.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $109.79 | ↓ -28% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $124.10 | ↓ -18% |
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Alprostadil for injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,677.60 | $1.41 – $4.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $151.80 | $14.47 – $124.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $249.00 | $11.71 – $283.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $199.80 | $1.20 – $9.67 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $151.80 | $14.47 – $14.47 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $151.80 | $10.48 – $14.47 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $282.00 | $3.23 – $11.29 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $151.80 | $0.44 – $14.47 |