Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer auto screen/manual rescreen/review at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$102.00
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.
$170.00
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.
$26.30 with UPMC Work Partners vs $136.00 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 | $26.30 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $27.14 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $27.58 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $28.47 | ↓ -72% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $28.74 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $28.74 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $28.74 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $28.74 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $29.55 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $29.55 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $31.03 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $32.51 | ↓ -68% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $41.07 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $43.82 | ↓ -57% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $46.13 | ↓ -55% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $50.36 | ↓ -51% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $70.95 | ↓ -30% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $85.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $85.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $87.14 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $90.10 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $93.50 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $108.64 | ↑ +7% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $118.37 | ↑ +16% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $136.00 | ↑ +33% |
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Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer auto screen/manual rescreen/review at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $78.00 | $9.60 – $117.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $64.20 | $14.66 – $90.95 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $121.80 | $17.30 – $162.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $110.40 | $21.40 – $108.64 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $78.00 | $26.30 – $104.00 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $78.00 | $24.13 – $33.98 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $64.20 | $26.34 – $42.58 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $78.00 | $23.82 – $49.93 |