X-ray sacroiliac joints >= 3 views at UPMC Hanover

300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$262.80

Cash price

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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.

$438.00

Gross charge

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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.

$21.61 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $589.04 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $21.61 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $32.13 ↓ -88%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $32.13 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $32.89 ↓ -87%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $34.46 ↓ -87%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $36.85 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $43.12 ↓ -84%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $83.22 ↓ -68%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $83.22 ↓ -68%
Premier Comp Solutions Worker's Comp $83.47 ↓ -68%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $83.47 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $100.57 ↓ -62%
Humana Medicare $101.59 ↓ -61%
Aetna Medicare $105.96 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $106.00 ↓ -60%
Geisinger Medicare $106.67 ↓ -59%
Cigna Medicare $106.67 ↓ -59%
United Healthcare Medicare $108.70 ↓ -59%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $109.72 ↓ -58%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $127.23 ↓ -52%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $162.54 ↓ -38%
Aetna ACO $248.78 ↓ -5%
Geisinger Commercial $286.80 ↑ +9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $297.66 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $297.66 ↑ +13%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $297.66 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $306.60 ↑ +17%
Aetna Commercial $318.86 ↑ +21%
United Healthcare Commercial $322.37 ↑ +23%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $337.01 ↑ +28%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $361.36 ↑ +38%
CareFirst Commercial $372.30 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $372.30 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $381.06 ↑ +45%
Cigna Commercial $589.04 ↑ +124%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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X-ray sacroiliac joints >= 3 views at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $222.60 $16.50 – $296.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $108.00 $26.57 – $162.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $262.80 $21.61 – $372.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $192.60 $26.57 – $256.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $262.80 $21.61 – $372.30
UPMC East Monroeville $436.20 $27.83 – $581.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $375.00 $21.89 – $166.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $154.80 $27.83 – $106.45

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