Debride nail6 or more 11721 at UPMC Altoona

620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$172.20

Cash price

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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.

$287.00

Gross charge

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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.

$20.00 with Aetna vs $385.51 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Aetna Medicaid $20.00 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $21.00 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $22.00 ↓ -87%
Geisinger Medicaid $27.80 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $29.66 ↓ -83%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $30.16 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $31.22 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $34.08 ↓ -80%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $57.75 ↓ -66%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $58.70 ↓ -66%
United Healthcare Medicare $60.59 ↓ -65%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $61.16 ↓ -64%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $61.16 ↓ -64%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $61.16 ↓ -64%
Cigna Medicare $61.16 ↓ -64%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $70.41 ↓ -59%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $99.88 ↓ -42%
Cigna Commercial $143.50 ↓ -17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $143.50 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Commercial $147.12 ↓ -15%
Aetna Commercial $152.11 ↓ -12%
Geisinger Commercial $157.85 ↓ -8%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $229.60 ↑ +33%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $353.81 ↑ +105%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $385.51 ↑ +124%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Debride nail6 or more 11721 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Bedford Everett $441.60 $20.43 – $662.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $204.60 $25.40 – $289.85
UPMC Cole Coudersport $137.40 $21.00 – $2,094.25
UPMC East Monroeville $297.00 $22.00 – $396.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $476.40 $22.00 – $102.65
UPMC Northwest Seneca $413.40 $22.00 – $99.88
UPMC Hanover Hanover $204.60 $25.40 – $104.53
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $265.80 $22.00 – $106.27

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