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X-ray lumbosacral spine complete including bending views >= 6 views at UPMC Muncy
215 East Water Street, Muncy, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1609816198
$828.00
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.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$1,380.00
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.
$26.88 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,311.00 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 | $26.88 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $38.50 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $38.50 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $38.50 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $39.02 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC) | $39.46 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicaid | $39.46 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $59.65 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $157.52 | ↓ -81% |
| Three Rivers Provider Network | All | $168.51 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $207.00 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $207.00 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $213.21 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $217.35 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $221.49 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $223.56 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Bluecare HMO/FPLIC PPO/Traditional Products | $541.24 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | PEBTF Custom Network | $559.59 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $601.68 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Managed Care - Social Mission | $637.42 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $658.26 | ↓ -21% |
| Coventry/First Health | Commercial | $691.38 | ↓ -17% |
| Wirerope Works | Commercial | $767.28 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | First Health | $910.80 | ↑ +10% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $924.60 | ↑ +12% |
| Coventry/First Health | FH-Medical Rental | $928.74 | ↑ +12% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $943.92 | ↑ +14% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $945.30 | ↑ +14% |
| Multiplan | Auto | $1,076.40 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $1,076.40 | ↑ +30% |
| America's Choice | PPO | $1,104.00 | ↑ +33% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,104.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Multiplan | Worker's Compensation | $1,311.00 | ↑ +58% |
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X-ray lumbosacral spine complete including bending views >= 6 views at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $666.60 | $38.50 – $944.35 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $765.60 | $38.50 – $1,148.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $366.60 | $38.50 – $519.35 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,154.40 | $25.20 – $1,635.40 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $262.80 | $24.15 – $328.50 |
| UPMC St. Margaret | Pittsburgh | $682.20 | $38.50 – $966.45 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,000.80 | $26.88 – $1,125.90 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $828.00 | $26.88 – $1,104.00 |