Betamethasone acetate and sodium phos 6 mg/ml suspension for injection at UPMC Cole
1001 East Second Street, Coudersport, PA · UPMC · · NPI 110485184
$16.80
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.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$28.00
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.
$4.16 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $12.30 with Aetna — 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 | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $4.16 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4.20 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $4.20 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $4.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare | $4.24 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $4.41 | ↓ -74% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP | $4.54 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $4.54 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $4.58 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $5.39 | ↓ -68% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $6.96 | ↓ -59% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $6.96 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $6.96 | ↓ -59% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $6.96 | ↓ -59% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $6.96 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $7.65 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $7.91 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $9.18 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $9.18 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $9.18 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $9.18 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $10.50 | ↓ -38% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $11.25 | ↓ -33% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $12.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $12.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Multiplan | PPO/Auto | $12.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | Commercial | $12.00 | ↓ -29% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $12.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $12.30 | ↓ -27% |
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Betamethasone acetate and sodium phos 6 mg/ml suspension for injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $26.80 | $4.39 – $26.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $78.60 | $4.39 – $88.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $6.60 | $0.96 – $9.62 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $6.60 | $1.40 – $15.41 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $52.00 | $4.39 – $52.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $122.40 | $4.39 – $18.56 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $49.20 | $4.39 – $24.03 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $6.60 | $6.96 – $9.62 |