Asp pq spinal cord cyst/syrinx at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$2,037.60
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.
$3,396.00
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.
$645.24 with Capital Blue Cross vs $3,397.00 with Cigna — 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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| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $645.24 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $645.24 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $680.98 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $821.83 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $841.99 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | Medicare | $850.49 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $887.06 | ↓ -56% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $893.01 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $893.01 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $910.02 | ↓ -55% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $918.53 | ↓ -55% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $1,360.78 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,732.47 | ↓ -15% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,867.80 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,867.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,223.70 | ↑ +9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2,307.92 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2,307.92 | ↑ +13% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2,307.92 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,377.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $2,821.42 | ↑ +38% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $2,886.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $2,886.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $2,954.52 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $3,025.19 | ↑ +48% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,397.00 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | ACO | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,037.60 | $465.25 – $2,886.60 |
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| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,037.60 | $539.52 – $916.60 |
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