Meperidine (pf) 25 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at UPMC Jameson
1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 111471575
$7.00
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.
$8.75
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.
$1.89 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $15.85 with Aetna 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1.89 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2.46 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3.01 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3.02 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3.60 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $6.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Humana | Commercial | $6.40 | ↓ -9% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $7.04 | ↑ +1% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $8.47 | ↑ +21% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $9.91 | ↑ +42% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $15.69 | ↑ +124% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $15.69 | ↑ +124% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $15.69 | ↑ +124% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $15.85 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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Meperidine (pf) 25 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $21.00 | $1.86 – $20.88 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $6.60 | $2.00 – $15.69 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $5.40 | $0.27 – $16.01 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $3.60 | $1.66 – $15.69 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $5.40 | $0.40 – $19.30 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $10.40 | $1.55 – $15.69 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $12.20 | $1.86 – $19.88 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $9.80 | $4.82 – $15.69 |