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Glucagon hcl 1 mg/ml solution for injection at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$167.40
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.
$279.00
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.
$54.55 with UPMC Work Partners vs $501.62 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $54.55 | ↓ -67% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $63.80 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $64.80 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $74.78 | ↓ -55% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $81.00 | ↓ -52% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $105.30 | ↓ -37% |
| Humana | Commercial | $121.50 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $143.69 | ↓ -14% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $147.50 | ↓ -12% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $148.99 | ↓ -11% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $148.99 | ↓ -11% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $148.99 | ↓ -11% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $148.99 | ↓ -11% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $148.99 | ↓ -11% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $148.99 | ↓ -11% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $151.97 | ↓ -9% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $160.89 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $220.97 | ↑ +32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $279.68 | ↑ +67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $501.62 | ↑ +200% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |