Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s)/steroid lumb/s transforaminal epidural w/img single (both sides) at UPMC Lititz
1500 Highlands Drive, Lititz, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1285167916
$2,647.20
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.
$4,412.00
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.
$120.70 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $3,750.20 with Multiplan — 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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $120.70 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $123.55 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $128.30 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $129.44 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $138.44 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $433.14 | ↓ -84% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $591.21 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $636.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $846.54 | ↓ -68% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $882.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $882.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $891.86 | ↓ -66% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $897.84 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $897.84 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $914.95 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,016.56 | ↓ -62% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $1,368.14 | ↓ -48% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $1,636.85 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,650.09 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $1,650.09 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $1,950.10 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,963.34 | ↓ -26% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $1,963.34 | ↓ -26% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2,069.67 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2,069.67 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2,069.67 | ↓ -22% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | Inter County Health Plan/Lancaster General Health/Musselman Lumber/Vallorbs Jewelry | $2,426.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Children's Health Insurance | $2,527.82 | ↓ -5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $2,632.14 | ↓ -1% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,689.60 | ↑ +2% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,888.98 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,088.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $3,194.29 | ↑ +21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $3,309.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,397.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $3,750.20 | ↑ +42% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection(s) anesthetic agent(s)/steroid lumb/s transforaminal epidural w/img single (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,647.20 | $120.70 – $3,750.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $280.20 | $56.83 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,647.20 | $128.30 – $3,750.20 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,935.00 | $104.54 – $2,580.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,674.80 | $104.54 – $891.22 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,647.20 | $120.70 – $1,360.78 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,674.80 | $104.54 – $1,140.40 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $2,674.80 | $104.54 – $1,145.85 |