Myelography l-s spine at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$1,450.80
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.
$2,418.00
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.
$43.23 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $3,578.07 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $43.23 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $69.85 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $69.85 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $71.50 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $74.91 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $80.11 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $93.73 | ↓ -94% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $459.42 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $459.42 | ↓ -68% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $474.84 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $474.84 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $585.16 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $719.66 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $747.19 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Medicare | $754.74 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $787.19 | ↓ -46% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $792.48 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $792.48 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $807.57 | ↓ -44% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $815.12 | ↓ -44% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $1,207.58 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,373.42 | ↓ -5% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,583.31 | ↑ +9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,643.27 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,643.27 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,643.27 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,692.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,760.30 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,779.65 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $2,055.30 | ↑ +42% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $2,055.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $2,103.66 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $2,503.77 | ↑ +73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,684.61 | ↑ +85% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,578.07 | ↑ +147% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Myelography l-s spine at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,450.80 | $43.23 – $2,055.30 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,450.80 | $43.23 – $2,055.30 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $613.20 | $60.50 – $493.83 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,450.80 | $43.23 – $1,214.11 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $4,906.80 | $60.50 – $813.49 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $4,666.20 | $60.50 – $828.55 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,450.80 | $43.23 – $1,212.14 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $3,447.00 | $42.24 – $522.83 |