Epoprostenol (arginine) 1 mg in 50 ml ns inhalation syringe - cnr at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$31.20
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.
$52.00
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.
$0.60 with Keystone Health Plan vs $49.55 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $0.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $0.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $0.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $0.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1.02 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $1.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1.28 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1.28 | ↓ -96% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $2.26 | ↓ -93% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $2.55 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $16.20 | ↓ -48% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $16.20 | ↓ -48% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $16.20 | ↓ -48% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $19.15 | ↓ -39% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $19.15 | ↓ -39% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $19.92 | ↓ -36% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $20.41 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $49.55 | ↑ +59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $49.55 | ↑ +59% |
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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 |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $505.20 | $10.23 – $204.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $31.20 | $0.41 – $22.50 |
| 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 Hanover | Hanover | $31.20 | $16.20 – $22.50 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $197.60 | $10.23 – $30.28 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $31.20 | $16.20 – $22.50 |