Mesna 100 mg/ml intravenous 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

$3.60

Cash price

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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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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$6.00

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.

$0.20 with Capital Blue Cross vs $193.34 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 $0.20 ↓ -94%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $0.20 ↓ -94%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $0.24 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $0.25 ↓ -93%
Aetna ACO $0.34 ↓ -91%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $0.36 ↓ -90%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $0.43 ↓ -88%
Aetna Commercial $0.43 ↓ -88%
InterGroup PPO $0.65 ↓ -82%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $0.75 ↓ -79%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $0.85 ↓ -76%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1.86 ↓ -48%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $1.86 ↓ -48%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1.86 ↓ -48%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $1.96 ↓ -46%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $2.20 ↓ -39%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $2.20 ↓ -39%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2.29 ↓ -36%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $193.34 ↑ +5271%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $193.34 ↑ +5271%

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Mesna 100 mg/ml intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD $22.75 $1.26 – $2.06
UPMC Cole Coudersport $82.20 $1.59 – $109.60
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,001.60 $1.17 – $155.29
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $621.00 $1.17 – $152.49
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $642.60 $1.17 – $117.22
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $306.60 $1.17 – $117.22
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $908.40 $1.17 – $116.12
UPMC Muncy Muncy $153.60 $1.86 – $2.04

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