Chromosome analysis 100 at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$802.80
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.
$1,338.00
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.
$171.15 with UPMC Work Partners vs $1,440.33 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $171.15 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $176.60 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $179.51 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $185.29 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $187.02 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $187.02 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $187.02 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $187.02 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $191.46 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $191.46 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $201.03 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $210.61 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $266.11 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $283.94 | ↓ -65% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $298.89 | ↓ -63% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $326.29 | ↓ -59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $459.68 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $669.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $669.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $685.86 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $709.14 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $735.90 | ↓ -8% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,070.40 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,321.88 | ↑ +65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,440.33 | ↑ +79% |
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Chromosome analysis 100 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,880.60 | $62.48 – $4,320.90 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,586.00 | $171.15 – $459.68 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,003.60 | $157.05 – $220.18 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,663.80 | $155.04 – $324.95 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $858.60 | $171.15 – $467.79 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,148.40 | $162.07 – $464.06 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,227.60 | $160.93 – $464.06 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,235.60 | $171.15 – $464.06 |