Lumbar Spinal Fusion (single level) at Uniontown Hospital
500 W Berkeley St, Uniontown, PA · Wvumedicine · · NPI 1871594127
$1,687.46
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.
$3,374.91
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.
$171.55 with upmc vs $39,597.84 with aetna — 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 | commercial | $171.55 | ↓ -90% |
| aetna better health pa | chip | $853.60 | ↓ -49% |
| geisinger pennsylvania | mgd medicaid | $931.20 | ↓ -45% |
| pennsylvania health & wellness | medicaid | $970.00 | ↓ -43% |
| amerihealth caritas pa medicaid | amerihealth caritas pa medicaid | $970.00 | ↓ -43% |
| upmc for kids | chip | $970.00 | ↓ -43% |
| upmc for you medicaid | upmc for you medicaid | $970.00 | ↓ -43% |
| highmark health options | chip | $1,229.64 | ↓ -27% |
| wellpoint west virginia | mgd mcaid | $1,229.64 | ↓ -27% |
| wellpoint wv | chip | $1,229.64 | ↓ -27% |
| highmark health options west va | mgd mcaid | $1,229.64 | ↓ -27% |
| the health plan wv | mgd mcaid | $1,247.21 | ↓ -26% |
| aetna | better health mgd medicaid | $1,253.07 | ↓ -26% |
| the health plan wv | chip | $1,253.07 | ↓ -26% |
| aetna better health wv | chip | $1,253.07 | ↓ -26% |
| highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | highmark wholecare pennsylvania medicaid | $1,346.75 | ↓ -20% |
| peak health medicare advantage | all plans | $16,994.78 | ↑ +907% |
| united mine workers of america medicare advantage | united mine workers of america medicare advantage | $16,994.78 | ↑ +907% |
| senior life medicare advantage | all plans | $17,844.52 | ↑ +957% |
| amerihealth caritas pa medicare advantage | all pl | $17,844.52 | ↑ +957% |
| aetna medicare advantage | all plans | $17,844.52 | ↑ +957% |
| humana medicare advantage | all plans | $17,844.52 | ↑ +957% |
| wv senior advantage | isnp | $18,014.47 | ↑ +968% |
| the health plan wv medicare advantage | all plans | $18,014.47 | ↑ +968% |
| pa health & wellness medicare advantage | all plan | $18,014.47 | ↑ +968% |
| geisinger pa medicare advantage | all plans | $18,014.47 | ↑ +968% |
| unitedhealthcare medicare advantage | all plans | $18,524.31 | ↑ +998% |
| upmc for life medicare advantage | all plans | $18,736.74 | ↑ +1010% |
| the health plan wv | peia | $19,068.14 | ↑ +1030% |
| highmark pa | chip | $22,946.35 | ↑ +1260% |
| coventry health care | worker's compensation | $26,851.75 | ↑ +1491% |
| alliance coal | alliance coal | $29,740.87 | ↑ +1662% |
| blue cross blue shield traditional | blue cross blue shield traditional | $35,298.16 | ↑ +1992% |
| blue cross blue shield ppo | blue cross blue shield ppo | $35,298.16 | ↑ +1992% |
| aetna | aetna | $39,597.84 | ↑ +2247% |
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Lumbar Spinal Fusion (single level) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $2,020.20 | $401.11 – $4,018.01 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $1,610.78 – $18,935.33 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $1,016.56 – $19,537.11 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $920.19 – $19,285.98 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $1,999.85 – $25,500.07 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | not published | $1,016.56 – $28,108.82 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | not published | $890.42 – $19,285.98 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | not published | $912.80 – $19,285.98 |