Bronch ebus samplng 1/2 node at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$777.60
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.
$1,296.00
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.
$189.91 with Aetna vs $3,966.17 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Aetna | Medicaid | $189.91 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $199.41 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $208.90 | ↓ -73% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $263.96 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $281.64 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $286.38 | ↓ -63% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $296.47 | ↓ -62% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $323.64 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $606.58 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $648.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $648.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $664.33 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $686.88 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $712.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,036.80 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,161.81 | ↑ +49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $3,584.66 | ↑ +361% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,640.00 | ↑ +368% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $3,643.71 | ↑ +369% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,761.11 | ↑ +384% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,796.26 | ↑ +388% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,796.26 | ↑ +388% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,796.26 | ↑ +388% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,796.26 | ↑ +388% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,966.17 | ↑ +410% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $4,452.00 | $256.38 – $6,307.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,967.60 | $208.90 – $5,112.40 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $4,452.00 | $241.19 – $5,635.42 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $2,221.20 | $208.90 – $4,745.33 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $4,452.00 | $241.19 – $5,656.67 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,260.20 | $208.90 – $3,866.57 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,354.40 | $208.90 – $3,866.57 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,429.20 | $208.90 – $3,866.57 |