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Paliperidone 117 mg/0.75 ml inj at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$1,391.40
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.
$2,319.00
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.
$13.28 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,588.50 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 | Medicare Advantage | $13.28 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $14.96 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $15.11 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $15.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $15.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $15.11 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $15.11 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $15.11 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $15.41 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $16.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $22.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $28.36 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $55.58 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $713.13 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $741.30 | ↓ -47% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $834.07 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $847.20 | ↓ -39% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,059.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $1,376.70 | ↓ -1% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,588.50 | ↑ +14% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Paliperidone 117 mg/0.75 ml inj at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $84.00 | $9.54 – $2,625.72 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $99.20 | $9.54 – $2,397.39 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $38.85 | $9.54 – $2,283.23 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $38.85 | $13.28 – $54.40 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $54.40 | $14.37 – $47.70 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,138.20 | $9.54 – $2,397.39 |