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Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at UPMC Williamsport

700 High Street, Williamsport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 164974648

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$20,030.40

Cash price

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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.

$25,038.00

Gross charge

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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.

$484.97 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $22,534.20 with Three Rivers Provider Network — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $484.97 ↓ -98%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $489.72 ↓ -98%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $494.67 ↓ -98%
Aetna Medicare $499.52 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $499.52 ↓ -98%
United Healthcare Medicare $518.92 ↓ -97%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $523.72 ↓ -97%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $523.77 ↓ -97%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $6,790.31 ↓ -66%
Multiplan Worker's Compensation $7,501.38 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $9,962.62 ↓ -50%
Aetna PEBTF Custom Network $10,152.91 ↓ -49%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $10,916.57 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products $11,732.81 ↓ -41%
Aetna Commercial $11,943.13 ↓ -40%
Coventry/First Health Commercial $12,544.04 ↓ -37%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $13,770.90 ↓ -31%
Wirerope Works Commercial $13,921.13 ↓ -30%
Aetna First Health $16,525.08 ↓ -18%
Geisinger Commercial $16,775.46 ↓ -16%
Coventry/First Health FH-Medical Rental $16,850.57 ↓ -16%
United Healthcare Commercial $17,125.99 ↓ -15%
Cigna Commercial $17,151.03 ↓ -14%
Multiplan Auto $19,529.64 ↓ -3%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $19,529.64 ↓ -3%
America's Choice PPO $20,030.40 ↑ +0%
InterGroup PPO $20,030.40 ↑ +0%
Three Rivers Provider Network All $22,534.20 ↑ +13%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $9,437.60 $82.85 – $10,617.30
UPMC Muncy Muncy $20,030.40 $484.97 – $22,534.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $9,437.60 $215.02 – $10,027.45
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $9,436.20 $83.64 – $901.85
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $9,436.20 $83.64 – $13,367.95
UPMC Somerset Somerset $939.60 $82.01 – $529.50
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $9,437.60 $83.64 – $10,027.45
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $20,030.40 $484.97 – $22,534.20

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