Myelography via inj w/s&i lumbosacral at UPMC East
2775 Mosside Boulevard, Monroeville, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1225323983
$1,401.60
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.
$2,336.00
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.
$109.28 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,868.80 with Private Health Care Systems — 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 | $109.28 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | Unison Kids | $114.25 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $138.09 | ↓ -90% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $147.34 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $149.82 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $155.10 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage | $159.77 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $169.31 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $318.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $355.72 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity | $462.41 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care | $476.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity | $619.30 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $755.26 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $769.50 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Compass Exchange | $770.88 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Non Special Needs | $790.89 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $790.89 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $805.96 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $813.41 | ↓ -42% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $813.49 | ↓ -42% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $813.49 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $813.49 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Neighborhood Network | $819.94 | ↓ -41% |
| United Healthcare | Unison Advantage Special Needs | $828.55 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $828.55 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | EBR FI | $887.68 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Home Depot Employer Group | $892.35 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | New Business ASO | $911.04 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | All Business | $911.04 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | NBR ASO/FI | $911.04 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | NBR ASO/FI | $911.04 | ↓ -35% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $925.18 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $934.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | EBR ASO | $934.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | EBR | $934.40 | ↓ -33% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | UPMC Emergent | $952.80 | ↓ -32% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,168.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,619.52 | ↑ +16% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $1,635.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,868.80 | ↑ +33% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Myelography via inj w/s&i lumbosacral at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,496.40 | $126.17 – $2,119.90 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $941.40 | $98.03 – $1,255.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,496.40 | $126.17 – $2,119.90 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,437.00 | $109.28 – $1,095.52 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,324.80 | $109.28 – $790.89 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,496.40 | $126.17 – $1,207.58 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,263.00 | $109.28 – $813.49 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $1,085.40 | $109.28 – $1,016.86 |