Ibandronate 3 mg/3 ml intravenous syringe at UPMC McKeesport
1500 Fifth Avenue, Mckeesport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 104370353
$1,189.80
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.
$1,983.00
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.
$18.07 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,685.55 with Humana — 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $18.07 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $28.61 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $28.61 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $28.61 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $29.70 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $31.79 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $35.19 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $287.91 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $548.30 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $688.10 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $747.59 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $753.54 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $763.46 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $763.46 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $793.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $793.20 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $991.50 | ↓ -17% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $991.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,076.82 | ↓ -9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,085.44 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna Behavioral Health | Commercial | $1,189.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,388.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,442.18 | ↑ +21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,453.70 | ↑ +22% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,586.40 | ↑ +33% |
| SelectCare | Commercial | $1,586.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,685.55 | ↑ +42% |
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Ibandronate 3 mg/3 ml intravenous syringe at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,608.00 | $18.07 – $752.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $105.00 | $10.96 – $68.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $105.00 | $16.00 – $474.87 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $954.60 | $18.07 – $1,272.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,491.60 | $18.07 – $91.20 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $105.00 | $28.61 – $53.32 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,750.20 | $18.07 – $726.84 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $486.60 | $18.07 – $290.23 |