Coveredge 32 lead kit 40cm 48 at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$4,909.80
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.
$8,183.00
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.
$27.74 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $3,886.72 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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| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $27.74 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $48.18 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $48.18 | ↓ -99% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $49.39 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $56.94 | ↓ -99% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $73.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $73.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $73.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $77.38 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $80.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $116.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $424.51 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,567.09 | ↓ -27% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,886.72 | ↓ -21% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Coveredge 32 lead kit 40cm 48 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $526.20 | $25.65 – $3,567.09 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $19,597.20 | $3,567.09 – $26,129.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $4,535.40 | $1,511.80 – $6,425.15 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $6,440.40 | $428.56 – $3,567.09 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $526.20 | $424.51 – $424.51 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,053.40 | $1,101.77 – $4,316.49 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $4,086.60 | $1,081.90 – $3,567.09 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $3,649.20 | $432.00 – $3,567.09 |