Administration vaccine influenza virus at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$12.00
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.
$20.00
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.
$7.31 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $47.51 with AmeriHealth Caritas — 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 | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $7.31 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $10.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $10.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $10.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $10.25 | ↓ -15% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $10.50 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $10.60 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $11.00 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $11.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $13.90 | ↑ +16% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $14.83 | ↑ +24% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $15.08 | ↑ +26% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $15.61 | ↑ +30% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $16.00 | ↑ +33% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $17.04 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $42.50 | ↑ +254% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $44.86 | ↑ +274% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $45.60 | ↑ +280% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $46.31 | ↑ +286% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $47.07 | ↑ +292% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $47.51 | ↑ +296% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $47.51 | ↑ +296% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $47.51 | ↑ +296% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $47.51 | ↑ +296% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Administration vaccine influenza virus at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $12.00 | $8.00 – $20.26 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $12.60 | $2.88 – $70.62 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $86.40 | $9.70 – $28.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $12.60 | $4.20 – $48.57 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $12.00 | $6.60 – $46.19 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $12.00 | $3.93 – $54.83 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $12.00 | $11.00 – $46.19 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $12.60 | $12.70 – $70.53 |