Methylprednisolone sodium succinate 1,000 mg intravenous solution at UPMC Kane
4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537
$124.20
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.
$207.00
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.
$0.21 with Geisinger vs $720.38 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.
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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| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.21 | ↓ -100% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $0.21 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $0.21 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $0.25 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $0.25 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $0.25 | ↓ -100% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $0.25 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $0.26 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $0.45 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $11.20 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage | $11.84 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $11.84 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $11.84 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $11.84 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $11.84 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $12.18 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $12.31 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $12.43 | ↓ -90% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $12.79 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $13.02 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $13.97 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $16.98 | ↓ -86% |
| Focus Healthcare | Workers Compensation | $18.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $22.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Horizon Health Plan | Commercial | $22.40 | ↓ -82% |
| Multiplan | Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation | $24.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $25.60 | ↓ -79% |
| InterGroup | Commercial | $25.60 | ↓ -79% |
| Focus Healthcare | Disability/PPO/Auto | $30.40 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $720.38 | ↑ +480% |
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Methylprednisolone sodium succinate 1,000 mg intravenous solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $40.80 | $0.21 – $6.23 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $80.40 | $0.21 – $1.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $40.80 | $0.15 – $6.23 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $7.40 | $0.13 – $7.16 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $40.80 | $0.21 – $6.23 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $8.60 | $0.13 – $6.23 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $40.80 | $0.21 – $6.23 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $10.80 | $0.13 – $6.85 |