Bx vulva or perineum/1 lesion 56605 at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$33.00
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.
$55.00
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.
$27.50 with Cigna vs $1,886.86 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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| Cigna | Commercial | $27.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $27.50 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $29.15 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $30.25 | ↓ -8% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $44.00 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $55.51 | ↑ +68% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $58.29 | ↑ +77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $61.06 | ↑ +85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $77.15 | ↑ +134% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $82.32 | ↑ +149% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $83.71 | ↑ +154% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $86.66 | ↑ +163% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $94.60 | ↑ +187% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $216.20 | ↑ +555% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $545.04 | ↑ +1552% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $846.59 | ↑ +2465% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $860.53 | ↑ +2508% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $888.26 | ↑ +2592% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $896.56 | ↑ +2617% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $896.56 | ↑ +2617% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $896.56 | ↑ +2617% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $896.56 | ↑ +2617% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,731.69 | ↑ +5148% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,886.86 | ↑ +5618% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Bx vulva or perineum/1 lesion 56605 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,452.00 | $70.50 – $2,057.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,131.40 | $61.06 – $1,203.71 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,452.00 | $70.50 – $1,330.91 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $414.00 | $61.06 – $407.17 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,717.20 | $61.06 – $896.56 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,452.00 | $70.50 – $1,335.92 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,544.20 | $61.06 – $913.16 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,063.60 | $61.06 – $931.20 |