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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (with and without contrast) at UPMC Kane
4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537
$4,383.00
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.
$7,305.00
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.
$149.45 with UPMC Health Plan vs $9,612.62 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 Health Plan | CHIP | $149.45 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $157.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage | $157.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $157.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $157.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $157.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $162.47 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $164.31 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $165.89 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $170.63 | ↓ -96% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $173.79 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $186.43 | ↓ -96% |
| Horizon Health Plan | Commercial | $298.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $298.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Multiplan | Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation | $320.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $341.60 | ↓ -92% |
| InterGroup | Commercial | $341.60 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $372.90 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $372.90 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $389.85 | ↓ -91% |
| Focus Healthcare | Disability/PPO/Auto | $405.65 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $471.18 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $502.74 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $529.21 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $577.72 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $920.95 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $920.95 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $1,128.05 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $1,128.05 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,357.00 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,380.18 | ↓ -46% |
| Focus Healthcare | Workers Compensation | $2,629.27 | ↓ -40% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,794.38 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $9,612.62 | ↑ +119% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Lower Back (Lumbar Spine) MRI (with and without contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $5,999.40 | $316.41 – $8,499.15 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $6,218.40 | $341.40 – $8,291.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,536.20 | $281.64 – $2,958.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,713.80 | $338.22 – $3,844.55 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,884.20 | $122.85 – $4,326.30 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,604.00 | $269.00 – $3,472.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,907.40 | $355.95 – $2,543.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,713.80 | $347.79 – $3,844.55 |