Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$133.20
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.
$222.00
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.
$0.90 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $19.55 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.
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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $0.90 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $0.90 | ↓ -99% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $4.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $4.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $5.57 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | ACO | $7.84 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $8.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $8.64 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $8.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare | $8.99 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $9.11 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $9.17 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $9.34 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $9.43 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $9.80 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $9.84 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $12.21 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $12.65 | ↓ -91% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $14.95 | ↓ -89% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $17.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $18.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $18.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $18.90 | ↓ -86% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $19.55 | ↓ -85% |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $133.20 | $3.15 – $19.55 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $124.80 | $5.35 – $166.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $424.00 | $0.54 – $9.43 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $133.20 | $8.64 – $13.97 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $340.80 | $1.37 – $9.43 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $160.80 | $0.55 – $10.91 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $133.20 | $8.64 – $13.97 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,901.40 | $0.54 – $9.43 |