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Meperidine (pf) 25 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$28.20
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.
$47.00
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.
$2.16 with Aetna vs $17.26 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare | $2.16 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $2.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2.40 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2.52 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2.57 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2.59 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $4.54 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $5.15 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5.23 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $6.07 | ↓ -78% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $6.67 | ↓ -76% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $8.04 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $8.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $9.36 | ↓ -67% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $9.36 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $10.20 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $10.36 | ↓ -63% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $10.80 | ↓ -62% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $10.80 | ↓ -62% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $11.40 | ↓ -60% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $15.69 | ↓ -44% |
| Geisinger | CHIP | $15.69 | ↓ -44% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $15.69 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $15.69 | ↓ -44% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $15.69 | ↓ -44% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $17.26 | ↓ -39% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $17.26 | ↓ -39% |
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Meperidine (pf) 25 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $16.40 | $1.50 – $15.69 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $23.40 | $1.80 – $10.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $9.80 | $1.50 – $15.69 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $10.80 | $1.88 – $15.69 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $10.80 | $1.88 – $15.69 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $5.40 | $0.67 – $15.69 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $17.20 | $1.50 – $15.69 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $10.80 | $1.84 – $15.69 |