Methylprednisolone 4 mg tablet at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$1.20
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.
$2.00
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.
$0.11 with PA Health & Wellness vs $1.58 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $0.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.11 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $0.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $0.13 | ↓ -89% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $0.13 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.13 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.16 | ↓ -87% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $0.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $0.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | ACO | $0.23 | ↓ -81% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $0.24 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $0.25 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $0.26 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $0.30 | ↓ -75% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $0.31 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $0.43 | ↓ -64% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $0.65 | ↓ -46% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $0.75 | ↓ -38% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $0.85 | ↓ -29% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1.58 | ↑ +32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $1.58 | ↑ +32% |
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Methylprednisolone 4 mg tablet at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $7.40 | $0.07 – $3.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1.20 | $0.11 – $0.85 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $5.40 | $0.07 – $4.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $20.20 | $0.07 – $0.63 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $22.00 | $0.07 – $2.46 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1.20 | $0.11 – $0.32 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $21.40 | $0.07 – $2.42 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $14.20 | $0.07 – $0.96 |