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Upper Endoscopy (EGD, with biopsy) at UPMC Memorial
1701 Innovation Drive, York, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1063945707
$2,019.60
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.
$3,366.00
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.
$188.70 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $3,168.36 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.
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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 Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $188.70 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $188.70 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $193.15 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $202.37 | ↓ -90% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $216.42 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $368.11 | ↓ -82% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $555.39 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $594.82 | ↓ -71% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $673.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $673.20 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $719.53 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $937.69 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $943.98 | ↓ -53% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $943.98 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $961.96 | ↓ -52% |
| Prime Net | ACO/Legacy Commercial | $1,380.06 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,390.16 | ↓ -31% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $1,438.45 | ↓ -29% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper/NonGateKeeper | $1,605.58 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,615.68 | ↓ -20% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,204.06 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,316.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $2,356.20 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,356.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $2,507.67 | ↑ +24% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2,581.95 | ↑ +28% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2,581.95 | ↑ +28% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2,581.95 | ↑ +28% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,625.48 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $2,861.10 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $2,977.95 | ↑ +47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $3,168.36 | ↑ +57% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Upper Endoscopy (EGD, with biopsy) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,214.00 | $163.44 – $3,136.50 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,055.20 | $163.44 – $4,073.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,124.20 | $163.44 – $3,644.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,019.60 | $188.70 – $2,861.10 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,675.80 | $148.58 – $2,234.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,656.60 | $156.01 – $2,484.90 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $637.20 | $156.01 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,083.20 | $188.70 – $2,861.10 |