Levofloxacin 250 mg/50 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback 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

$1.20

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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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$2.00

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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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$0.20 with Capital Blue Cross vs $61.28 with Highmark BCBS of PA — same scan, same building. Share

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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

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

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 $0.20 ↓ -83%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $0.20 ↓ -83%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $0.24 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $0.25 ↓ -79%
Aetna ACO $0.34 ↓ -72%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $0.36 ↓ -70%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $0.43 ↓ -64%
Aetna Commercial $0.43 ↓ -64%
InterGroup PPO $0.65 ↓ -46%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $0.75 ↓ -38%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $0.85 ↓ -29%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $2.35 ↑ +96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $2.54 ↑ +112%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $2.54 ↑ +112%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $2.54 ↑ +112%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $3.00 ↑ +150%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $3.00 ↑ +150%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $3.12 ↑ +160%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $61.28 ↑ +5007%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $61.28 ↑ +5007%

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Levofloxacin 250 mg/50 ml in 5 % dextrose intravenous piggyback at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $229.80 $1.05 – $102.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $284.40 $1.05 – $142.20
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD $11.47 $1.20 – $2.77
GROVE CITY HOSPITAL GROVE CITY $10.51 $1.20 – $2.77
UPMC Cole Coudersport $34.80 $1.05 – $17.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $455.40 $1.05 – $9.69
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $254.40 $1.05 – $93.80
UPMC Jameson New Castle $141.60 $1.05 – $37.45

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