Magnesium at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$33.60
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.
$56.00
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.
$6.63 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $48.72 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $6.63 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $6.70 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare | $6.70 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | ACO | $6.70 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $6.93 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $6.99 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $7.04 | ↓ -79% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $7.04 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $7.17 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $7.24 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $7.25 | ↓ -78% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $9.21 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $9.43 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $9.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $9.87 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $10.56 | ↓ -69% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $10.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $10.64 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $10.72 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $12.36 | ↓ -63% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $13.55 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $17.44 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $22.23 | ↓ -34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $23.83 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $25.46 | ↓ -24% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $26.99 | ↓ -20% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $36.67 | ↑ +9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $38.06 | ↑ +13% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $38.06 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $38.06 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $39.20 | ↑ +17% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $47.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $47.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $48.72 | ↑ +45% |
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Magnesium at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $85.20 | $6.62 – $113.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $41.40 | $2.42 – $62.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $33.60 | $6.63 – $47.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $48.60 | $4.36 – $64.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $40.20 | $6.63 – $47.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $99.00 | $6.62 – $132.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $156.60 | $6.62 – $12.86 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $39.00 | $6.08 – $8.34 |