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Neck (Cervical Spine) CT scan (with and without contrast) at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$1,294.80
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.
$2,158.00
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.
$168.36 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,349.00 with Aetna — 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 BCBS of PA | Medicare | $168.36 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare | $170.06 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $177.37 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $178.16 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $178.56 | ↓ -86% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $178.56 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $181.96 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $183.66 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $247.71 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $247.71 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $253.56 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $265.66 | ↓ -79% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $272.10 | ↓ -79% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $280.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $284.11 | ↓ -78% |
| OneCall | Worker's Comp | $325.00 | ↓ -75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $332.40 | ↓ -74% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $410.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $410.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $522.24 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $564.16 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $604.90 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $956.02 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $957.68 | ↓ -26% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,413.06 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,425.82 | ↑ +10% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,466.58 | ↑ +13% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,466.58 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,466.58 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,510.60 | ↑ +17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,588.29 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,833.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $1,834.30 | ↑ +42% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $1,834.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $1,877.46 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,349.00 | ↑ +81% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Neck (Cervical Spine) CT scan (with and without contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,242.40 | $170.18 – $4,323.20 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,061.00 | $157.72 – $2,919.75 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $5,272.80 | $195.88 – $6,151.60 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $3,154.20 | $157.31 – $4,468.45 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,294.80 | $168.60 – $1,834.30 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,699.20 | $136.00 – $2,265.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $3,139.20 | $61.23 – $4,708.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,086.00 | $204.80 – $1,448.00 |