Iron dextran 50 mg/ml injection solution 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

$10.20

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.

$17.00

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.

$3.40 with Capital Blue Cross vs $55.43 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.

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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
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $3.40 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $3.40 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $4.11 ↓ -60%
Aetna ACO $5.80 ↓ -43%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $6.15 ↓ -40%
Aetna Commercial $7.24 ↓ -29%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $7.27 ↓ -29%
InterGroup PPO $11.05 ↑ +8%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $12.78 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $14.45 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $17.93 ↑ +76%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $18.02 ↑ +77%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $18.11 ↑ +78%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $18.11 ↑ +78%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $18.11 ↑ +78%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $18.20 ↑ +78%
Humana Medicare $18.65 ↑ +83%
Aetna Medicare $18.89 ↑ +85%
Cigna Medicare $19.02 ↑ +86%
United Healthcare Medicare $19.38 ↑ +90%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $19.56 ↑ +92%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $21.41 ↑ +110%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $21.41 ↑ +110%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $21.61 ↑ +112%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $22.27 ↑ +118%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $55.43 ↑ +443%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $55.43 ↑ +443%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Iron dextran 50 mg/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $59.80 $11.43 – $59.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $91.20 $6.53 – $102.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $10.20 $2.33 – $28.98
UPMC East Monroeville $72.60 $11.43 – $96.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $270.40 $11.43 – $20.72
UPMC Northwest Seneca $99.00 $11.43 – $19.56
UPMC Hanover Hanover $10.20 $17.93 – $28.98
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $91.80 $11.43 – $33.98

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