Myelography thoracic spine at UPMC Kane
4372 Route 6, Kane, PA · UPMC · · NPI 146763537
$636.00
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.
$1,060.00
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.
$57.75 with UPMC Health Plan vs $5,065.20 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 | Managed Medicaid | $57.75 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | CHIP/Medicaid | $57.75 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $60.38 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $72.97 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $77.86 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $78.75 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $81.96 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $83.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage | $83.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $83.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $83.25 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $83.25 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $85.61 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $86.58 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $87.41 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $89.47 | ↓ -86% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $89.91 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $91.58 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $98.23 | ↓ -85% |
| Horizon Health Plan | Commercial | $157.50 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $157.50 | ↓ -75% |
| Multiplan | Auto/PPO/Worker's Compensation | $168.75 | ↓ -73% |
| InterGroup | Commercial | $180.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Coalition Partners | PPO | $180.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Focus Healthcare | Disability/PPO/Auto | $213.75 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $302.90 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $302.90 | ↓ -52% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $371.01 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $371.01 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $478.27 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $519.29 | ↓ -18% |
| Focus Healthcare | Workers Compensation | $528.32 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $567.13 | ↓ -11% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $5,065.20 | ↑ +696% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Myelography thoracic spine at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,450.80 | $48.14 – $2,055.30 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,450.80 | $48.14 – $2,055.30 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,450.80 | $48.14 – $1,207.58 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,450.80 | $48.14 – $1,214.11 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,450.80 | $48.14 – $1,212.14 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,874.60 | $47.04 – $558.84 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $7,566.00 | $44.10 – $828.55 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,450.80 | $42.26 – $753.23 |