Cell cryopreserve/storage at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$133.80
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.
$223.00
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.
$12.92 with UPMC Work Partners vs $169.60 with Private Health Care Systems — 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $12.92 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $13.33 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $13.55 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $13.98 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $14.12 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $14.12 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $14.12 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $14.12 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $26.82 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $83.16 | ↓ -38% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $90.61 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $106.00 | ↓ -21% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $106.00 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $108.67 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $112.36 | ↓ -16% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $116.60 | ↓ -13% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $116.60 | ↓ -13% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $116.60 | ↓ -13% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $169.60 | ↑ +27% |
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Cell cryopreserve/storage at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $66.60 | $12.92 – $88.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $150.60 | $12.92 – $26.82 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $165.60 | $11.85 – $14.12 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $165.60 | $11.70 – $24.53 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $189.00 | $9.17 – $27.30 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $63.00 | $12.23 – $27.08 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $117.00 | $12.11 – $27.08 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $99.60 | $10.90 – $26.82 |