Aztreonam 1 gram solution for injection at UPMC Community Osteopathic

111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$21.60

Cash price

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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.

$36.00

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.

$2.10 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $22.95 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.

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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
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $2.10 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $2.10 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $2.53 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $2.53 ↓ -88%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2.53 ↓ -88%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $2.58 ↓ -88%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $3.00 ↓ -86%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $3.00 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $3.12 ↓ -86%
Aetna ACO $5.36 ↓ -75%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $5.40 ↓ -75%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $5.40 ↓ -75%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $5.92 ↓ -73%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $6.53 ↓ -70%
Aetna Medicare $6.78 ↓ -69%
Aetna Commercial $6.96 ↓ -68%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $11.55 ↓ -47%
InterGroup PPO $17.55 ↓ -19%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $20.30 ↓ -6%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $22.95 ↑ +6%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Aztreonam 1 gram solution for injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $13.00 $1.26 – $8.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $18.80 $1.60 – $20.70
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $21.60 $2.53 – $22.95
UPMC East Monroeville $10.40 $1.28 – $8.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $39.60 $1.26 – $6.91
UPMC Northwest Seneca $19.80 $1.60 – $3.28
UPMC Hanover Hanover $21.60 $2.53 – $17.83
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $22.00 $1.60 – $3.22

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