Icd crtp serena MRI at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$24,591.00
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.
$40,985.00
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.
$3,865.36 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $35,918.61 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 | $3,865.36 | ↓ -84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $6,142.48 | ↓ -75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $6,713.52 | ↓ -73% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $6,713.52 | ↓ -73% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $6,882.38 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $7,934.16 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $10,172.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $10,172.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $10,172.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $10,782.32 | ↓ -56% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $11,189.20 | ↓ -54% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $16,275.20 | ↓ -34% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $32,964.74 | ↑ +34% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $35,918.61 | ↑ +46% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Icd crtp serena MRI at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $13,146.00 | $3,912.29 – $32,964.74 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $5,940.00 | $1,881.00 – $7,920.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $24,360.60 | $8,120.20 – $34,510.85 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $47,350.20 | $6,200.97 – $63,133.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $34,519.80 | $6,142.48 – $6,142.48 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $24,360.60 | $3,640.47 – $32,964.74 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $30,396.60 | $6,142.48 – $26,030.37 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $39,481.20 | $6,200.97 – $47,835.95 |