Cath acunav ge 10frx90cm at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$8,743.20
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.
$14,572.00
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.
$1,120.87 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $5,151.02 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,120.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,183.50 | ↓ -75% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $2,183.50 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $2,183.50 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,314.51 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,401.85 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,401.85 | ↓ -73% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $2,401.85 | ↓ -73% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,493.60 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $4,727.41 | ↓ -46% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5,151.02 | ↓ -41% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Cath acunav ge 10frx90cm at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $8,475.60 | $662.60 – $5,900.03 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $16,337.40 | $1,120.87 – $1,120.87 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $8,475.60 | $70.68 – $4,727.41 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $11,246.40 | $1,131.55 – $6,860.06 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $13,317.60 | $1,131.55 – $7,643.37 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $8,475.60 | $1,109.54 – $2,831.55 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $3,905.40 | $1,757.43 – $5,858.10 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $2,772.00 | $2,494.80 – $2,494.80 |