Methylprednisolone acetate 40 mg/ml suspension for injection at UPMC Kane

4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537

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

$55.20

Cash price

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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.

$92.00

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.

$0.12 with PA Health & Wellness vs $787.92 with Cigna — 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
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $0.12 ↓ -100%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $0.12 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $0.12 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $0.15 ↓ -100%
United Healthcare Commercial $0.20 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $0.21 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $0.21 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $0.21 ↓ -100%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $0.21 ↓ -100%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $12.25 ↓ -78%
Highmark BCBS of PA Together Blue Medicare Advantage $12.95 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage $12.95 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Security Blue Medicare Advantage $12.95 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $12.95 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $12.95 ↓ -77%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $13.32 ↓ -76%
Aetna of PA Medicare $13.47 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $13.60 ↓ -75%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $13.99 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $14.24 ↓ -74%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $15.28 ↓ -72%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $18.57 ↓ -66%
Focus Healthcare Workers Compensation $20.51 ↓ -63%
Cigna Commercial $24.50 ↓ -56%
Horizon Health Plan Commercial $24.50 ↓ -56%
Multiplan Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation $26.25 ↓ -52%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $28.00 ↓ -49%
InterGroup Commercial $28.00 ↓ -49%
Focus Healthcare Disability/PPO/Auto $33.25 ↓ -40%
Cigna Medicare $787.92 ↑ +1327%

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Methylprednisolone acetate 40 mg/ml suspension for injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $11.40 $0.12 – $6.80
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 Lititz Lititz $11.40 $0.12 – $6.73
UPMC Memorial York $11.40 $0.06 – $6.73

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