healthcosts.net
Ertapenem 1000 mg/10 ml IV (dilution #1) desensitization - cnr at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$82.80
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$138.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$7.74 with UPMC Work Partners vs $46.32 with UPMC Health Plan — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $7.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $9.06 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $9.20 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $9.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $9.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $9.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $11.50 | ↓ -86% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $11.50 | ↓ -86% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $14.95 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $15.04 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Commercial | $17.25 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $43.68 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $46.32 | ↓ -44% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Ertapenem 1000 mg/10 ml IV (dilution #1) desensitization - cnr at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $211.20 | $6.23 – $104.92 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $595.80 | $9.86 – $445.50 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $227.20 | $6.23 – $114.53 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,000.80 | $6.23 – $355.30 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,000.80 | $6.23 – $1,417.80 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $573.60 | $6.23 – $99.09 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $595.80 | $9.86 – $445.50 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $1,000.80 | $9.86 – $1,417.80 |