Ghs inj transforaminal cerv single bil at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$2,647.20
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.
$4,412.00
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.
$136.87 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $3,838.44 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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $136.87 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $140.10 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $141.18 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $145.49 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $146.78 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $156.98 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $183.66 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $469.24 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $510.72 | ↓ -81% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $838.28 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $838.28 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $841.99 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare | $850.49 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $887.06 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $893.01 | ↓ -66% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $893.01 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $910.02 | ↓ -66% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $918.53 | ↓ -65% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $1,067.70 | ↓ -60% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $1,360.78 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $2,821.42 | ↑ +7% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,888.98 | ↑ +9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2,998.40 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2,998.40 | ↑ +13% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2,998.40 | ↑ +13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $3,025.19 | ↑ +14% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,088.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,397.00 | ↑ +28% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $3,750.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $3,750.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $3,838.44 | ↑ +45% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ACO | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Ghs inj transforaminal cerv single bil at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,647.20 | $136.87 – $3,750.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $334.20 | $113.16 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,647.20 | $141.18 – $3,750.20 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,073.80 | $118.55 – $4,098.40 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $724.80 | $118.55 – $1,103.69 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $2,647.20 | $136.87 – $1,368.14 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,484.00 | $118.55 – $916.68 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $2,647.20 | $136.87 – $1,365.92 |