Ibuprofen injection at UPMC Memorial
1701 Innovation Drive, York, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1063945707
$150.00
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.
$250.00
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.
$1.30 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $140.25 with Multiplan — 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 | Medicare | $1.30 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3.10 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $3.10 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3.13 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $3.16 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $3.41 | ↓ -98% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $3.66 | ↓ -98% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $3.66 | ↓ -98% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $3.69 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3.81 | ↓ -97% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4.13 | ↓ -97% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $27.23 | ↓ -82% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $33.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $33.00 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $59.22 | ↓ -61% |
| Prime Net | ACO/Legacy Commercial | $67.65 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | ACO | $68.14 | ↓ -55% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper/NonGateKeeper | $78.70 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $79.20 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $101.64 | ↓ -32% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $108.04 | ↓ -28% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $115.50 | ↓ -23% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $115.50 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $122.92 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $140.25 | ↓ -7% |
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Ibuprofen injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $150.00 | $3.10 – $140.25 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $150.00 | $2.66 – $140.25 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $150.00 | $3.10 – $4.13 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $150.00 | $3.10 – $4.13 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $150.00 | $1.58 – $3.10 |