Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at UPMC Kane

4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$37.80

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.

$63.00

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.

$0.67 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,418.26 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.

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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 Managed Care $0.67 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $0.67 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $0.67 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $0.67 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.83 ↓ -98%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $0.83 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $0.83 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1.02 ↓ -97%
United Healthcare Commercial $1.27 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $22.05 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Together Blue Medicare Advantage $23.31 ↓ -38%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $23.31 ↓ -38%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $23.31 ↓ -38%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage $23.31 ↓ -38%
Highmark BCBS of PA Security Blue Medicare Advantage $23.31 ↓ -38%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $23.97 ↓ -37%
Aetna of PA Medicare $24.24 ↓ -36%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $24.48 ↓ -35%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $25.17 ↓ -33%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $25.64 ↓ -32%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $27.51 ↓ -27%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $33.43 ↓ -12%
Focus Healthcare Workers Compensation $36.92 ↓ -2%
Cigna Commercial $44.10 ↑ +17%
Horizon Health Plan Commercial $44.10 ↑ +17%
Multiplan Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation $47.25 ↑ +25%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $50.40 ↑ +33%
InterGroup Commercial $50.40 ↑ +33%
Focus Healthcare Disability/PPO/Auto $59.85 ↑ +58%
Cigna Medicare $1,418.26 ↑ +3652%

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Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $43.80 $0.53 – $2.31
UPMC Bedford Everett $31.20 $0.53 – $4.50
UPMC Cole Coudersport $17.40 $0.67 – $23.20
UPMC East Monroeville $22.80 $0.36 – $2.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $81.60 $0.53 – $2.10
UPMC Northwest Seneca $28.20 $0.53 – $1.98
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $33.60 $0.53 – $1.94
UPMC Jameson New Castle $22.80 $0.53 – $0.84

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