Dobutamine 250 mg/20 ml (12.5 mg/ml) intravenous solution at UPMC Kane
4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537
$75.60
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.
$126.00
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.
$7.08 with Geisinger vs $2,836.51 with Cigna — 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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| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $7.08 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $7.08 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $7.08 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $7.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $7.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $7.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $7.90 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $8.71 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $12.19 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $44.10 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage | $46.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $46.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $46.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $46.62 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $46.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $47.94 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $48.48 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $48.95 | ↓ -35% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $50.35 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $51.28 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $55.01 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $66.86 | ↓ -12% |
| Focus Healthcare | Workers Compensation | $73.85 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $88.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Horizon Health Plan | Commercial | $88.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation | $94.50 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $100.80 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Commercial | $100.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Focus Healthcare | Disability/PPO/Auto | $119.70 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2,836.51 | ↑ +3652% |
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Dobutamine 250 mg/20 ml (12.5 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $59.40 | $4.47 – $22.17 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $118.20 | $4.47 – $46.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $20.40 | $4.71 – $13.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $303.00 | $4.47 – $95.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $337.20 | $4.47 – $26.81 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $297.00 | $4.47 – $43.80 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $112.80 | $4.47 – $43.01 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $192.60 | $4.47 – $17.18 |