Drsg wnd mesh bovine bilayer 4x10in matrix-q4104-cost per sq cm at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$14,389.80
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.
$23,983.00
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.
$22.06 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $5,552.80 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $22.06 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $32.20 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $57.48 | ↓ -100% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $62.73 | ↓ -100% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $157.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,318.79 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $2,290.53 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $2,290.53 | ↓ -84% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2,348.14 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $2,706.99 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,470.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $3,470.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,470.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,678.73 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $3,817.55 | ↓ -73% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $5,552.80 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Drsg wnd mesh bovine bilayer 4x10in matrix-q4104-cost per sq cm at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $3,286.80 | $56.10 – $4,382.40 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $22,306.80 | $22.27 – $7,009.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $33,291.60 | $22.06 – $75.02 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $5,257.20 | $32.20 – $56.23 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $10,660.80 | $22.45 – $51.51 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $6,688.20 | $22.27 – $54.40 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $36,884.40 | $22.06 – $51.00 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $29,534.40 | $56.10 – $56.10 |