Abobotulinumtoxina at UPMC Altoona

620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$61.20

Cash price

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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.

$76.50

Gross charge

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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.

$5.53 with UPMC Health Plan vs $60.80 with Private Health Care Systems — 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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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $5.53 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Medicaid $8.75 ↓ -86%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $8.75 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $8.75 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $8.75 ↓ -86%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $8.92 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $9.07 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Medicare $9.36 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $9.45 ↓ -85%
Cigna Medicare $9.45 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $9.45 ↓ -85%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $9.45 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $9.56 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $10.76 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $15.04 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Commercial $25.59 ↓ -58%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $28.26 ↓ -54%
Cigna Commercial $38.00 ↓ -38%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $38.00 ↓ -38%
Aetna Commercial $40.28 ↓ -34%
Geisinger Commercial $41.80 ↓ -32%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $60.80 ↓ -1%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Abobotulinumtoxina at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Bedford Everett $64.60 $3.16 – $72.00
UPMC East Monroeville $64.60 $5.53 – $64.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $67.60 $5.53 – $9.79
UPMC Northwest Seneca $64.60 $5.53 – $9.45
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $64.60 $5.53 – $16.42
UPMC Jameson New Castle $64.60 $5.53 – $15.30
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $2,746.20 $5.53 – $15.18
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $64.60 $5.53 – $15.18

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