healthcosts.net
Upper Back (Thoracic Spine) MRI (without contrast) at UPMC Lititz
1500 Highlands Drive, Lititz, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1285167916
$1,656.00
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$2,760.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$229.84 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,346.00 with Multiplan — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $229.84 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $242.14 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $243.77 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $243.77 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $245.23 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $248.41 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $331.91 | ↓ -80% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $331.91 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $339.75 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $355.96 | ↓ -79% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $369.84 | ↓ -78% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $371.46 | ↓ -78% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $380.68 | ↓ -77% |
| OneCall | Worker's Comp | $400.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $425.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $552.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $552.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Children's Health Insurance | $686.31 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $714.63 | ↓ -57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $730.24 | ↓ -56% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $1,023.96 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,032.24 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $1,032.24 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $1,219.92 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,224.77 | ↓ -26% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $1,228.20 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,228.20 | ↓ -26% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,294.72 | ↓ -22% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,294.72 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,294.72 | ↓ -22% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,301.70 | ↓ -21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | Inter County Health Plan/Lancaster General Health/Musselman Lumber/Vallorbs Jewelry | $1,518.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,807.25 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,932.00 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,973.33 | ↑ +19% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,998.24 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $2,031.36 | ↑ +23% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,070.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $2,346.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Upper Back (Thoracic Spine) MRI (without contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,656.00 | $228.92 – $2,346.00 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,699.20 | $187.20 – $2,265.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,705.20 | $83.15 – $2,557.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,042.20 | $224.37 – $1,389.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,656.00 | $235.40 – $2,346.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,940.80 | $231.07 – $5,254.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,642.80 | $183.52 – $1,916.60 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,656.00 | $228.61 – $2,401.20 |