Vancomycin peak therapeutic drug level at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$97.20
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.
$162.00
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.
$13.40 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $137.70 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 | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $13.40 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $13.61 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare | $13.95 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $14.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $14.12 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $14.22 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $14.49 | ↓ -85% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $14.62 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $18.72 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $24.52 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $25.50 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $27.27 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $31.90 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $32.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $32.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $39.20 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $67.59 | ↓ -30% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $79.19 | ↓ -19% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $79.19 | ↓ -19% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $79.19 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | ACO | $95.42 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $101.25 | ↑ +4% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $103.74 | ↑ +7% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $103.74 | ↑ +7% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $105.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $119.23 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $121.82 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $137.70 | ↑ +42% |
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Vancomycin peak therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $122.40 | $13.38 – $163.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $66.60 | $4.89 – $99.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $97.20 | $13.40 – $137.70 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $93.00 | $8.80 – $124.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $201.00 | $13.38 – $268.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $357.00 | $13.38 – $26.02 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $102.00 | $12.28 – $21.53 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $97.20 | $13.40 – $25.50 |