Interferon beta-1a 30 mcg/0.5 ml im injection (wrapper) at UPMC Memorial
1701 Innovation Drive, York, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1063945707
$4,959.00
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.
$8,265.00
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.
$25.95 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $8,383.77 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $25.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $61.43 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $61.84 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $61.84 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $62.30 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $63.02 | ↓ -99% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $69.06 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $75.70 | ↓ -98% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $94.24 | ↓ -98% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $156.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $156.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $195.10 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $207.58 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $377.04 | ↓ -92% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $960.47 | ↓ -81% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $1,164.20 | ↓ -77% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $1,164.20 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,089.16 | ↓ -58% |
| Prime Net | ACO/Legacy Commercial | $2,386.61 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | ACO | $2,404.07 | ↓ -52% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper/NonGateKeeper | $2,776.62 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,794.08 | ↓ -44% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3,201.55 | ↓ -35% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $3,811.59 | ↓ -23% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $4,074.70 | ↓ -18% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,074.70 | ↓ -18% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $4,336.65 | ↓ -13% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $4,947.85 | ↓ -0% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $8,383.77 | ↑ +69% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Interferon beta-1a 30 mcg/0.5 ml im injection (wrapper) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,092.60 | $31.84 – $192.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $4,959.00 | $32.40 – $8,383.77 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $4,959.00 | $53.02 – $8,383.77 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,403.20 | $53.42 – $63.61 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $4,959.00 | $58.31 – $8,383.77 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $4,959.00 | $58.31 – $8,383.77 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,358.00 | $32.14 – $63.61 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $3,823.80 | $32.14 – $64.79 |