Methylprednisolone 4 mg tablet at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$5.40
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.
$6.75
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.
$0.07 with UPMC Health Plan vs $7.38 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $0.07 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $0.11 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.11 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $0.11 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $0.11 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $0.13 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $0.25 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $0.25 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.26 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $0.72 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $0.96 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $2.11 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $2.28 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $2.29 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $2.34 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $2.34 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $2.34 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2.40 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $2.40 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | EBR | $2.40 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $2.76 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $2.77 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3.00 | ↓ -44% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $3.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $3.69 | ↓ -32% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $3.71 | ↓ -31% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $4.20 | ↓ -22% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $4.80 | ↓ -11% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $7.38 | ↑ +37% |
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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 Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1.20 | $0.11 – $1.58 |
| 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 |