Cath impl vasc access portal at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$198.60
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.
$331.00
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.
$27.00 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $129.09 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) — 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 Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $27.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $27.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $27.00 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $28.62 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $29.70 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $29.70 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $29.70 | ↓ -85% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $43.20 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $57.40 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $59.76 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $62.54 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $62.89 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $83.84 | ↓ -58% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $111.98 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $129.09 | ↓ -35% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $39.00 | $12.35 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,215.60 | $2.61 – $1,722.10 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $379.80 | $59.76 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $370.80 | $69.46 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $367.80 | $57.40 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $428.40 | $16.30 – $83.84 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,215.60 | $2.61 – $87.74 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $268.20 | $45.33 – $83.84 |