Azithromycin dihydrate, oral at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$0.60
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.
$1.00
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.
$0.20 with Keystone Health Plan vs $87.86 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $0.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $0.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $0.24 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.24 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $0.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ACO | $0.34 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $0.36 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $0.43 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $0.43 | ↓ -28% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.55 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $0.65 | ↑ +8% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $0.75 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $0.85 | ↑ +42% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $7.88 | ↑ +1213% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $36.84 | ↑ +6040% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $36.84 | ↑ +6040% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $38.68 | ↑ +6347% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $65.58 | ↑ +10830% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $65.58 | ↑ +10830% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $87.86 | ↑ +14543% |
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Azithromycin dihydrate, oral at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $76.40 | $5.58 – $87.86 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $334.40 | $0.22 – $129.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $235.20 | $12.62 – $128.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $150.40 | $0.22 – $34.77 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $225.60 | $102.23 – $106.32 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $150.40 | $0.22 – $100.38 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $101.60 | $8.62 – $87.86 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $85.20 | $20.82 – $64.70 |