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Darbepoetin alfa 100 mcg/0.5 ml in polysorbate injection syringe at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$2,322.00
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.
$3,870.00
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.
$2.90 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $144.75 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $2.90 | ↓ -100% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2.93 | ↓ -100% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $2.93 | ↓ -100% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $2.93 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $2.93 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2.93 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2.93 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $2.99 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3.16 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $4.35 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $5.50 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $9.33 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $11.30 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $64.98 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $76.00 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $77.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $96.50 | ↓ -96% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $125.45 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Commercial | $144.75 | ↓ -94% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Darbepoetin alfa 100 mcg/0.5 ml in polysorbate injection syringe at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $17,923.80 | $2.93 – $53.10 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $9,910.20 | $1.85 – $468.63 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $7,828.80 | $1.85 – $446.32 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $17,923.80 | $2.93 – $53.10 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $5,376.60 | $2.93 – $53.10 |