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Inj proc myelogram lumbar at UPMC Muncy
215 East Water Street, Muncy, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1609816198
$1,094.40
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.
$1,824.00
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.
$87.49 with UPMC Health Plan vs $1,732.80 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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| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $87.49 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $87.49 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $87.49 | ↓ -92% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $88.69 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $89.68 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $89.68 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $135.55 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $273.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $273.60 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $281.81 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $287.28 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $292.75 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $295.49 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $448.22 | ↓ -59% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $479.49 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $715.37 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $739.63 | ↓ -32% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $762.88 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $795.26 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $842.51 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $870.05 | ↓ -20% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $913.82 | ↓ -17% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $1,014.14 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $1,203.84 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,222.08 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $1,227.55 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,247.62 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,249.44 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $1,422.72 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,422.72 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $1,459.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,459.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1,732.80 | ↑ +58% |
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Inj proc myelogram lumbar at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,000.80 | $87.49 – $1,417.80 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,250.60 | $87.49 – $3,375.90 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,289.60 | $87.49 – $3,243.60 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $518.40 | $87.49 – $685.40 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,323.20 | $87.49 – $1,488.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $87.49 – $868.37 |