Tilt table study at UPMC Memorial
1701 Innovation Drive, York, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1063945707
$920.40
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.
$1,534.00
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.
$140.33 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $17,298.00 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 | $140.33 | ↓ -85% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $253.11 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $300.38 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $306.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $306.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $530.67 | ↓ -42% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $534.23 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $534.23 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $544.41 | ↓ -41% |
| Prime Net | ACO/Legacy Commercial | $628.94 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | ACO | $633.54 | ↓ -31% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper/NonGateKeeper | $731.72 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $736.32 | ↓ -20% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $814.06 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $843.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,004.46 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,073.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $1,073.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,142.83 | ↑ +24% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,151.02 | ↑ +25% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $1,303.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $1,685.32 | ↑ +83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,793.08 | ↑ +95% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $9,437.40 | ↑ +925% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $9,437.40 | ↑ +925% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $9,437.40 | ↑ +925% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $17,298.00 | ↑ +1779% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Tilt table study at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,418.40 | $368.54 – $1,891.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $920.40 | $140.33 – $1,303.90 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $920.40 | $140.33 – $1,303.90 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,909.20 | $372.05 – $2,545.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $4,359.60 | $368.54 – $720.95 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $920.40 | $140.33 – $1,151.02 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $920.40 | $140.33 – $1,151.02 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $1,551.60 | $372.05 – $556.45 |