Injection(s) epidural/subarachnoid cervical/thoracic needle placement w/guidance at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$2,048.40
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.
$3,414.00
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.
$113.28 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $2,970.18 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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $113.28 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $113.28 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $115.96 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $121.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $129.93 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $152.01 | ↓ -93% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $332.95 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $332.95 | ↓ -84% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $648.66 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $648.66 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $654.94 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare | $661.56 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $690.01 | ↓ -66% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $694.64 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $694.64 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $707.87 | ↓ -65% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $714.48 | ↓ -65% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $826.19 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,016.56 | ↓ -50% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $1,058.50 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,796.70 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,939.15 | ↓ -5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $2,194.66 | ↑ +7% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,235.49 | ↑ +9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2,320.15 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2,320.15 | ↑ +13% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2,320.15 | ↑ +13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,353.17 | ↑ +15% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,389.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,485.39 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,512.70 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,662.92 | ↑ +30% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $2,901.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $2,901.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $2,970.18 | ↑ +45% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection(s) epidural/subarachnoid cervical/thoracic needle placement w/guidance at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,048.40 | $113.28 – $2,901.90 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $181.20 | $83.71 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,048.40 | $113.28 – $2,901.90 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,861.20 | $98.12 – $2,481.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,842.00 | $98.12 – $960.26 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4,189.80 | $98.12 – $693.24 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $3,417.00 | $98.12 – $713.05 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $2,085.60 | $98.12 – $892.40 |