Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at UPMC Lititz

1500 Highlands Drive, Lititz, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1285167916

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

$5.40

Cash price

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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.

$9.00

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.

$0.40 with Prime Net vs $12.51 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
Prime Net Managed Medicare $0.40 ↓ -93%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $0.60 ↓ -89%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $0.60 ↓ -89%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $0.74 ↓ -86%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $1.11 ↓ -79%
Aetna ACO $1.12 ↓ -79%
Prime Net ACO $1.12 ↓ -79%
Prime Net GateKeeper $1.33 ↓ -75%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $1.33 ↓ -75%
Aetna Commercial $1.33 ↓ -75%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $1.41 ↓ -74%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $1.41 ↓ -74%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $1.41 ↓ -74%
Preferred Healthcare System Inter County Health Plan/Lancaster General Health/Musselman Lumber/Vallorbs Jewelry $1.65 ↓ -69%
United Healthcare Commercial $1.85 ↓ -66%
Geisinger Commercial $1.96 ↓ -64%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $2.10 ↓ -61%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $2.17 ↓ -60%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $2.25 ↓ -58%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $2.55 ↓ -53%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $9.64 ↑ +79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $9.64 ↑ +79%
Aetna Medicare $9.74 ↑ +80%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $9.84 ↑ +82%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $10.61 ↑ +96%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $11.86 ↑ +120%
Cigna Commercial $12.51 ↑ +132%

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Pamidronate 30 mg/10 ml (3 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $721.60 $6.09 – $721.60
AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL WEXFORD $85.14 $10.53 – $16.42
GROVE CITY HOSPITAL GROVE CITY $75.32 $10.53 – $16.42
UPMC Cole Coudersport $40.20 $9.64 – $53.60
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,189.20 $6.09 – $542.20
UPMC Muncy Muncy $200.00 $9.64 – $10.61
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $200.00 $9.64 – $10.61
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $450.00 $9.64 – $10.61

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