Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) at UPMC Kane
4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537
$1,947.60
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.
$3,246.00
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.
$618.25 with UPMC Work Partners vs $73,073.95 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $618.25 | ↓ -68% |
| Focus Healthcare | Workers Compensation | $682.96 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,136.10 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,201.02 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,201.02 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,201.02 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,201.02 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,201.02 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,235.10 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $1,249.06 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $1,261.07 | ↓ -35% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,297.10 | ↓ -33% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $1,321.12 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $1,417.20 | ↓ -27% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,785.30 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,785.30 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $1,835.34 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $1,835.34 | ↓ -6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $2,248.07 | ↑ +15% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $2,248.07 | ↑ +15% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,272.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Horizon Health Plan | Commercial | $2,272.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Multiplan | Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation | $2,434.50 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $2,596.80 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | Commercial | $2,596.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Focus Healthcare | Disability/PPO/Auto | $3,083.70 | ↑ +58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,389.39 | ↑ +74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $73,073.95 | ↑ +3652% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,908.20 | $647.01 – $4,119.95 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $411.00 | $189.88 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,908.20 | $647.01 – $4,602.81 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,205.20 | $618.25 – $4,273.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $4,350.00 | $618.25 – $2,010.67 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,908.20 | $647.01 – $4,602.81 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,267.40 | $618.25 – $2,010.67 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $2,267.40 | $618.25 – $2,513.34 |