Parathyrd planar w/spect&ct at UPMC Memorial
1701 Innovation Drive, York, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1063945707
$1,574.40
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.
$2,624.00
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.
$234.90 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,480.49 with Cigna — 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $234.90 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $338.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $405.61 | ↓ -74% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $405.61 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $415.19 | ↓ -74% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $432.96 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $435.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $465.21 | ↓ -70% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $524.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $524.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $538.34 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $541.96 | ↓ -66% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $541.96 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $552.28 | ↓ -65% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $825.84 | ↓ -48% |
| Prime Net | ACO/Legacy Commercial | $1,075.84 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,083.71 | ↓ -31% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper/NonGateKeeper | $1,251.65 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,259.52 | ↓ -20% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,588.57 | ↑ +1% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,588.57 | ↑ +1% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,668.08 | ↑ +6% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $1,709.70 | ↑ +9% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,718.20 | ↑ +9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,819.02 | ↑ +16% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $1,836.80 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,836.80 | ↑ +17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,931.26 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,954.88 | ↑ +24% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,978.82 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $2,230.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,480.49 | ↑ +58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Parathyrd planar w/spect&ct at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $728.40 | $258.15 – $971.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,574.40 | $338.18 – $2,230.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,574.40 | $338.18 – $2,230.40 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,574.40 | $338.18 – $822.74 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,574.40 | $338.18 – $827.18 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $2,233.80 | $330.43 – $544.29 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,600.80 | $290.95 – $564.50 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,145.00 | $290.95 – $564.50 |