Magnesium at UPMC Kane

4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537

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

$115.80

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.

$193.00

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.

$6.62 with UPMC Work Partners vs $832.94 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $6.62 ↓ -94%
Focus Healthcare Workers Compensation $7.32 ↓ -94%
Aetna CHIP/Medicaid $7.97 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $7.97 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families Unison Kids $8.34 ↓ -93%
United Healthcare Commercial $9.21 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.08 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $10.75 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $11.32 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $12.36 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $12.95 ↓ -89%
Highmark BCBS of PA Together Blue Medicare Advantage $13.69 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $13.69 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage $13.69 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $13.69 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Security Blue Medicare Advantage $13.69 ↓ -88%
Aetna of PA Medicare $14.24 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Non Special Needs $14.37 ↓ -88%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $14.79 ↓ -87%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $14.79 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Unison Advantage Special Needs $15.06 ↓ -87%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $16.15 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $19.88 ↓ -83%
Horizon Health Plan Commercial $25.90 ↓ -78%
Cigna Commercial $25.90 ↓ -78%
Multiplan Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation $27.75 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care - Social Mission $28.92 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity $28.92 ↓ -75%
Health Coalition Partners PPO $29.60 ↓ -74%
InterGroup Commercial $29.60 ↓ -74%
Focus Healthcare Disability/PPO/Auto $35.15 ↓ -70%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity $35.42 ↓ -69%
Highmark BCBS of PA Managed Care $35.42 ↓ -69%
Cigna Medicare $832.94 ↑ +619%

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Magnesium at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $85.20 $6.62 – $113.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $41.40 $2.42 – $62.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $33.60 $6.63 – $47.60
UPMC Cole Coudersport $48.60 $4.36 – $64.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $40.20 $6.63 – $47.60
UPMC East Monroeville $99.00 $6.62 – $132.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $156.60 $6.62 – $12.86
UPMC Northwest Seneca $39.00 $6.08 – $8.34

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