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Pelvic MRI (with and without contrast) at UPMC Muncy
215 East Water Street, Muncy, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1609816198
$4,010.40
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.
$6,684.00
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.
$604.49 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $6,349.80 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $604.49 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $634.56 | ↓ -84% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $634.56 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $634.56 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $643.21 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $650.42 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $650.42 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $983.10 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $1,002.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,002.60 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $1,032.68 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1,052.73 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,072.78 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,082.81 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,009.77 | ↓ -50% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $2,149.98 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $2,621.46 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $2,710.36 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,914.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $3,087.34 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,188.27 | ↓ -20% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $3,348.68 | ↓ -17% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $3,716.30 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $4,411.44 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $4,478.28 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $4,498.33 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $4,571.86 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,578.54 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $5,213.52 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $5,213.52 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $5,347.20 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $5,347.20 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $6,349.80 | ↑ +58% |
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Pelvic MRI (with and without contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $6,218.40 | $341.40 – $8,291.20 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $5,999.40 | $316.41 – $8,499.15 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,415.00 | $271.09 – $2,817.50 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $4,192.80 | $304.83 – $5,939.80 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $6,049.20 | $315.59 – $8,569.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,713.80 | $338.22 – $3,844.55 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,563.20 | $122.85 – $3,844.80 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,604.00 | $425.00 – $3,472.00 |