Ghs flow volume loop at UPMC Memorial
1701 Innovation Drive, York, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1063945707
$129.00
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.
$215.00
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.
$23.63 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,052.33 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $23.63 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $25.03 | ↓ -81% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $35.48 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $39.97 | ↓ -69% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $39.97 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $40.91 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $42.86 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $43.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $43.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $45.84 | ↓ -64% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $85.79 | ↓ -33% |
| Prime Net | ACO/Legacy Commercial | $88.15 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | ACO | $88.80 | ↓ -31% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper/NonGateKeeper | $102.56 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $103.20 | ↓ -20% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $107.25 | ↓ -17% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $130.16 | ↑ +1% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $130.16 | ↑ +1% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $136.68 | ↑ +6% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $140.78 | ↑ +9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $150.50 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $150.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $160.18 | ↑ +24% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $167.70 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $182.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $311.44 | ↑ +141% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $313.53 | ↑ +143% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $313.53 | ↑ +143% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $319.50 | ↑ +148% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $477.76 | ↑ +270% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $613.00 | ↑ +375% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $989.08 | ↑ +667% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,052.33 | ↑ +716% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Ghs flow volume loop at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $163.80 | $18.04 – $218.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $366.60 | $16.60 – $327.76 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $169.80 | $30.71 – $375.76 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $145.80 | $34.62 – $311.72 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $129.00 | $23.63 – $475.97 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $276.00 | $34.62 – $320.63 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $276.00 | $20.75 – $371.10 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $129.00 | $23.63 – $478.54 |