Hydration IV infusion initial 31minutes - 1 hour at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$369.60
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.
$616.00
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.
$31.63 with Aetna vs $492.80 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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| Aetna | Medicaid | $31.63 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $33.21 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $34.79 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $43.96 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $46.91 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $47.70 | ↓ -87% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $49.38 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $53.90 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $83.37 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $106.81 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $190.40 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $204.85 | ↓ -45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $207.46 | ↓ -44% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $208.22 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $214.93 | ↓ -42% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $216.94 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $216.94 | ↓ -41% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $216.94 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $216.94 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $308.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $308.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $315.76 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $326.48 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $338.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $492.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $243.00 | $33.21 – $364.50 |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $264.60 | $33.21 – $171.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $522.00 | $40.17 – $659.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $609.00 | $34.79 – $812.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $607.20 | $34.79 – $250.38 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $388.20 | $34.79 – $210.91 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $522.00 | $40.17 – $322.03 |