Brachy source yttrium-90 at UPMC Memorial

1701 Innovation Drive, York, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1063945707

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$39,612.00

Cash price

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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.

$66,020.00

Gross charge

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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.

$7,064.20 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $154,064.79 with UPMC Health Plan — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $7,064.20 ↓ -82%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $10,893.30 ↓ -73%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $13,204.00 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $13,204.00 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $14,071.95 ↓ -64%
Aetna Medicare $17,487.42 ↓ -56%
Cigna Medicare $17,604.78 ↓ -56%
Geisinger Medicare $17,604.78 ↓ -56%
United Healthcare Medicare $17,940.11 ↓ -55%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $21,786.60 ↓ -45%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $22,004.47 ↓ -44%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $25,087.60 ↓ -37%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $26,826.34 ↓ -32%
Prime Net ACO/Legacy Commercial $27,068.20 ↓ -32%
Aetna ACO $27,266.26 ↓ -31%
Prime Net GateKeeper/NonGateKeeper $31,491.54 ↓ -21%
Aetna Commercial $31,689.60 ↓ -20%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $39,968.51 ↑ +1%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $39,968.51 ↑ +1%
United Healthcare Commercial $40,668.32 ↑ +3%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $41,968.91 ↑ +6%
Geisinger Commercial $43,229.90 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $46,214.00 ↑ +17%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $46,214.00 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $49,184.90 ↑ +24%
Cigna Commercial $51,495.60 ↑ +30%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $55,537.22 ↑ +40%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $56,117.00 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $59,088.36 ↑ +49%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $154,064.79 ↑ +289%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid not published by hospital
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Brachy source yttrium-90 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $39,612.00 $9,044.74 – $56,117.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $39,612.00 $13,204.00 – $154,064.79
UPMC Hamot Erie $54,249.60 $8,667.29 – $20,778.35
UPMC Lititz Lititz $39,612.00 $14,071.95 – $154,064.79
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $34,334.40 $8,749.82 – $18,336.93
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $133,443.60 $8,749.82 – $18,336.93
UPMC Somerset Somerset $39,612.00 $8,579.63 – $18,001.87
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $37,851.00 $13,749.70 – $18,003.54

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