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Methylprednisolone acetate 40 mg/ml suspension for injection at UPMC Wellsboro
32-36 Central Ave, Wellsboro, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1427501766
$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.
$0.12 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $8.20 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $0.12 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger | CHIP | $0.12 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $0.12 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $0.12 | ↓ -93% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $0.12 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $0.12 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $0.13 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $0.13 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $0.32 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $0.35 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $0.35 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $0.36 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $0.37 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $0.37 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $0.38 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $0.66 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $0.75 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $0.76 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $0.88 | ↓ -45% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $0.97 | ↓ -39% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1.17 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $1.28 | ↓ -20% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $1.36 | ↓ -15% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1.36 | ↓ -15% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1.49 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1.51 | ↓ -6% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $1.57 | ↓ -2% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1.57 | ↓ -2% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1.66 | ↑ +4% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $8.20 | ↑ +413% |
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Methylprednisolone acetate 40 mg/ml suspension for injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1.20 | $0.07 – $9.43 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1.60 | $0.12 – $0.90 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $0.60 | $0.08 – $8.61 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1.20 | $0.08 – $8.61 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $0.90 | $0.08 – $8.20 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $11.40 | $0.07 – $6.00 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $3.80 | $0.08 – $9.02 |
| UPMC Western Psychiatric | Pittsburgh | $0.90 | $0.07 – $0.21 |