Vitamin b-12 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

$82.20

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.

$137.00

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.

$14.30 with UPMC Health Plan 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.

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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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $14.30 ↓ -83%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $14.30 ↓ -83%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $14.90 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $14.95 ↓ -82%
Focus Healthcare Workers Compensation $16.46 ↓ -80%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $18.07 ↓ -78%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $19.28 ↓ -77%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $20.29 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Commercial $20.72 ↓ -75%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $22.15 ↓ -73%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $44.10 ↓ -46%
Highmark BCBS of PA Together Blue Medicare Advantage $46.62 ↓ -43%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $46.62 ↓ -43%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage $46.62 ↓ -43%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $46.62 ↓ -43%
Highmark BCBS of PA Security Blue Medicare Advantage $46.62 ↓ -43%
Aetna of PA Medicare $48.48 ↓ -41%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $48.95 ↓ -40%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $50.35 ↓ -39%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $50.35 ↓ -39%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $51.28 ↓ -38%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $55.01 ↓ -33%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $56.08 ↓ -32%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $65.09 ↓ -21%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $65.09 ↓ -21%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $79.72 ↓ -3%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $79.72 ↓ -3%
Horizon Health Plan Commercial $88.20 ↑ +7%
Cigna Commercial $88.20 ↑ +7%
Multiplan Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation $94.50 ↑ +15%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $100.80 ↑ +23%
InterGroup Commercial $100.80 ↑ +23%
Focus Healthcare Disability/PPO/Auto $119.70 ↑ +46%
Cigna Medicare $2,836.51 ↑ +3351%

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Vitamin b-12 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $108.60 $13.00 – $144.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $75.00 $5.44 – $112.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $76.80 $13.00 – $108.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $105.00 $9.80 – $140.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $76.80 $13.00 – $93.50
UPMC East Monroeville $225.60 $13.00 – $300.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $192.00 $13.00 – $29.13
UPMC Northwest Seneca $89.40 $13.68 – $16.29

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