F-18 sodium fluoride at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$640.80
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.
$1,068.00
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.
$202.92 with Keystone Health Plan vs $929.16 with Wellspan Population Health — 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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| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $202.92 | ↓ -68% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $202.92 | ↓ -68% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $258.46 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $299.43 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $378.07 | ↓ -41% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $512.23 | ↓ -20% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $587.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $587.40 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | ACO | $606.62 | ↓ -5% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $657.89 | ↑ +3% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $699.33 | ↑ +9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $725.81 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $725.81 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $725.81 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $747.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $777.50 | ↑ +21% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $907.80 | ↑ +42% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $907.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $929.16 | ↑ +45% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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F-18 sodium fluoride at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,190.60 | $512.23 – $2,920.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $640.80 | $146.32 – $907.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $640.80 | $213.60 – $907.80 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $640.80 | $173.56 – $512.23 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $532.20 | $190.92 – $512.23 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $640.80 | $173.56 – $512.23 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $748.80 | $828.19 – $828.19 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $640.80 | $306.81 – $306.81 |