Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$5.40
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.
$9.00
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 Capital Blue Cross vs $660.01 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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| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $0.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $0.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $0.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $0.75 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1.02 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $1.09 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1.28 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1.28 | ↓ -76% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1.95 | ↓ -64% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $2.26 | ↓ -58% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $2.55 | ↓ -53% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $9.64 | ↑ +79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $9.64 | ↑ +79% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $9.64 | ↑ +79% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $11.40 | ↑ +111% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $11.40 | ↑ +111% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $11.86 | ↑ +120% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $15.62 | ↑ +189% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $660.01 | ↑ +12122% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $660.01 | ↑ +12122% |
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Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $721.60 | $6.09 – $721.60 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | $85.14 | $10.53 – $16.42 |
| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | $75.32 | $10.53 – $16.42 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $40.20 | $9.64 – $53.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,189.20 | $6.09 – $542.20 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $200.00 | $9.64 – $10.61 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $200.00 | $9.64 – $10.61 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $450.00 | $9.64 – $10.61 |