Flu shot, recombinant (Flublok) cost in Buffalo, NY
In Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY, 3 hospitals list a cash price for flu shot, recombinant, egg-free (Flublok): from $34.36 to $147.00, with a median of $55.67. The lowest listed price is at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center — $21.31 less than the median here. Across New York, the median is $106.03 at 54 hospitals.
Cash prices at 3 facilities across 3 cities for code 90673, as an outpatient — the setting a self-pay patient normally buys. Collected Oct 2, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026.
Where each hospital's price falls
Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY.
Hospitals, cheapest first
| Hospital | Cash price | List price | Insurers pay | Off list |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center lowest Niagara Falls, NY · (716) 278-4000 RIV3 VACCINE NO PRESERV IM source file | $34.36 | $49.09 | $36.34 | 30% |
| Bertrand Chaffee Hospital Springville, NY · (716) 592-2871 RIV3 VACCINE NO PRESERV IM+1 more line at this price File of Oct 1, 2026 · source file | $55.67 | $65.50 | $55.67–$87.83 | 15% |
| Kaleida Health Buffalo, NY · (716) 859-8620 Flu Riv3 Flublok Vac Im File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $147.00 | $147.00 | — | — |
| Kaleida Health Buffalo, NY · (716) 859-8620 Influenza Pf Sdv-Flublok File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $152.00 | $152.00 | — | — |
| Kaleida Health Buffalo, NY · (716) 859-8620 Flu Riv4 Pf 0.5Ml-Flublok File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $168.00 | $168.00 | — | — |
| Kaleida Health Buffalo, NY · (716) 859-8620 Influ Tri Rec .5Ml Flublk File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file | $232.00 | $232.00 | — | — |
Outpatient: lowest $34.36, median $55.67, highest $147.00 — a 4.3× difference within the same market.
As an inpatient, the same code is billed by 2 facilities here, median $101.34. Inpatient and outpatient prices are not comparable and are kept on separate pages: the inpatient charge covers admission, not the same purchase.
Cash or insurance?
At 2 of 2 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at 1 it is below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.
What it is
Flublok is a recombinant flu vaccine made without eggs. The CDC prefers it, the high-dose and the adjuvanted flu shots for people 65 and older.
What the price covers
The price is for the vaccine dose. Giving the shot is usually a separate line (code 90471 for the first vaccine of the visit, 90472 for each additional one).
1 row held back from this comparison
It is priced below $1 or below a tenth of the national median for code 90673 ($88.60). Such a line is almost always a physician's fee billed separately, an assistant's share or a placeholder — a real charge, but not the price of the procedure itself.
| Hospital | Cash price | File |
|---|---|---|
| Kaleida Health Buffalo, NYVfc Flu Riv3 Flublok Vac | $0.01 | file |