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Thyroid Ultrasound at UPMC Memorial
1701 Innovation Drive, York, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1063945707
$394.20
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.
$657.00
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.
$66.78 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $589.04 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $66.78 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $78.17 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $96.96 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $96.96 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $99.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $103.99 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $106.35 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $107.07 | ↓ -73% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $107.07 | ↓ -73% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $108.41 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $109.11 | ↓ -72% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $111.21 | ↓ -72% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $131.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $131.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $163.15 | ↓ -59% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $209.16 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $209.16 | ↓ -47% |
| Prime Net | ACO/Legacy Commercial | $269.37 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | ACO | $271.34 | ↓ -31% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $310.63 | ↓ -21% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper/NonGateKeeper | $313.39 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $315.36 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $337.77 | ↓ -14% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $359.36 | ↓ -9% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $430.20 | ↑ +9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $459.90 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $459.90 | ↑ +17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $483.55 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $489.46 | ↑ +24% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $498.04 | ↑ +26% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $498.04 | ↑ +26% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $498.04 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $558.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $589.04 | ↑ +49% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Thyroid Ultrasound at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $880.80 | $83.98 – $1,174.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,002.00 | $83.98 – $1,419.50 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $598.20 | $64.85 – $697.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $394.20 | $66.78 – $558.45 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $572.40 | $50.98 – $763.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $291.00 | $36.58 – $436.50 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $339.60 | $80.17 – $452.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $394.20 | $35.80 – $310.63 |