Prednisone 1 mg tablet at WellSpan Waynesboro Hospital
501 E. Main St., Waynesboro, PA · Wellspan · · NPI 1821091059
$1.60
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.
$0.01 with Blue_Cross vs $4.51 with United_Healthcare — 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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| Blue_Cross | All_Other_Plans | $0.01 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue_Cross | Capital_Cares_4_kids | $0.01 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | All_Plans | $0.02 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | All_Plans | $0.04 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | PPO_Plan | $0.04 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC | UPMC_For_Kids | $0.45 | ↓ -72% |
| Geisinger | All_Plans | $0.56 | ↓ -65% |
| First_Health_Network | All_Plans | $0.71 | ↓ -56% |
| WellSpan_Capital_Blue_Cross | All_Plans | $0.90 | ↓ -44% |
| United_Healthcare | All_Plans | $4.51 | ↑ +182% |
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Prednisone 1 mg tablet at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1.20 | $0.00 – $0.90 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $0.60 | $0.01 – $0.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $0.80 | $0.00 – $0.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $18.60 | $0.00 – $0.05 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1.00 | $0.00 – $0.10 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $12.20 | $0.00 – $0.09 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $1.20 | $0.00 – $0.04 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $1.80 | $0.01 – $0.22 |