Phenobarbital therapeutic drug level at UPMC Community Osteopathic

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$110.40

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.

$184.00

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.

$15.15 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $156.40 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.

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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
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $15.15 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $15.37 ↓ -86%
Humana Medicare $15.76 ↓ -86%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $15.82 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare $15.96 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $16.01 ↓ -85%
Cigna Medicare $16.07 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Medicare $16.37 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $16.52 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $20.97 ↓ -81%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $21.81 ↓ -80%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $23.32 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $27.28 ↓ -75%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $36.80 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $36.80 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $44.53 ↓ -60%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $55.27 ↓ -50%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $66.94 ↓ -39%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $66.94 ↓ -39%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $66.94 ↓ -39%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $88.35 ↓ -20%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $88.35 ↓ -20%
Aetna ACO $108.38 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $115.00 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $119.60 ↑ +8%
Aetna Commercial $135.42 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $138.37 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $156.40 ↑ +42%

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Phenobarbital therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $148.80 $15.12 – $198.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $75.00 $5.52 – $112.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $110.40 $15.15 – $156.40
UPMC Cole Coudersport $80.40 $9.95 – $107.20
UPMC East Monroeville $169.20 $15.12 – $225.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $282.00 $15.12 – $22.25
UPMC Northwest Seneca $89.40 $13.88 – $18.41
UPMC Hanover Hanover $110.40 $15.15 – $24.48

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