Injection(s) diagnostic/therapeutic agent facet cervical/thoracic 2nd level at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$845.40
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.
$1,409.00
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.
$136.51 with UPMC Work Partners vs $1,360.97 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 Work Partners | Workers Comp | $136.51 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $165.38 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $352.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $368.22 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $464.97 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $478.65 | ↓ -43% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $493.13 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $494.56 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $535.42 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $538.24 | ↓ -36% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $549.51 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $549.51 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $549.51 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $549.51 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $563.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $563.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $563.60 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $641.05 | ↓ -24% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $691.11 | ↓ -18% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $704.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $704.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $774.95 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $774.95 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $986.26 | ↑ +17% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $986.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,127.20 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,360.97 | ↑ +61% |
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Injection(s) diagnostic/therapeutic agent facet cervical/thoracic 2nd level at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,318.80 | $63.88 – $9,539.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $147.00 | $67.91 – $196.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,318.80 | $63.88 – $1,868.30 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,071.60 | $136.51 – $642.91 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,318.80 | $63.88 – $1,360.97 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,897.80 | $136.51 – $738.28 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $1,897.80 | $51.15 – $1,360.97 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $80.40 | $136.51 – $1,002.18 |