Bx/curett of cervix w/scope 57454 at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$192.00
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.
$320.00
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.
$105.94 with Aetna vs $455.07 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 | $105.94 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $111.24 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $116.53 | ↓ -39% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $130.12 | ↓ -32% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $147.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $157.11 | ↓ -18% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $159.76 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $160.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $160.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $164.03 | ↓ -15% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $165.38 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $169.60 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $176.00 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $180.54 | ↓ -6% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $246.12 | ↑ +28% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $256.00 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $295.75 | ↑ +54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $300.62 | ↑ +57% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $310.31 | ↑ +62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $313.21 | ↑ +63% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $313.21 | ↑ +63% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $313.21 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $313.21 | ↑ +63% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $417.65 | ↑ +118% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $455.07 | ↑ +137% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Bx/curett of cervix w/scope 57454 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $615.60 | $134.54 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $615.60 | $134.54 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $501.00 | $116.53 – $714.56 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $576.00 | $116.53 – $313.21 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $615.60 | $106.05 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $785.40 | $116.53 – $931.20 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $615.60 | $116.53 – $892.40 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,015.20 | $116.53 – $993.28 |