Methylprednisolone acetate 40 mg/ml suspension for injection at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$11.40
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.
$19.00
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.
$0.12 with Humana vs $6.80 with Multiplan — 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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| Humana | Medicare | $0.12 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $0.12 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $0.12 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $0.12 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $0.12 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $0.12 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.12 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $0.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $0.13 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $0.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $0.13 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $0.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $0.13 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $0.19 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $0.34 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $0.35 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $0.38 | ↓ -97% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $1.10 | ↓ -90% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $1.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $1.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2.57 | ↓ -77% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2.57 | ↓ -77% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2.57 | ↓ -77% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $3.12 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | ACO | $3.14 | ↓ -72% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $3.14 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3.26 | ↓ -71% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $3.72 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3.74 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $3.74 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $4.93 | ↓ -57% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $5.20 | ↓ -54% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $5.24 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5.60 | ↓ -51% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $6.05 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $6.24 | ↓ -45% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $6.73 | ↓ -41% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $6.80 | ↓ -40% |
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Methylprednisolone acetate 40 mg/ml suspension for injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $22.80 | $0.12 – $18.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $11.40 | $0.12 – $6.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2.80 | $0.08 – $0.21 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $11.40 | $0.12 – $6.73 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2.80 | $0.08 – $8.20 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $55.20 | $0.12 – $0.21 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $11.40 | $0.12 – $6.73 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $11.40 | $0.06 – $6.73 |