Icd reliance df4 ib 64cm at UPMC Altoona

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

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

$13,722.00

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.

$22,870.00

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.

$2,045.54 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $23,492.97 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
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $2,045.54 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $3,552.78 ↓ -74%
Geisinger Medicaid $3,552.78 ↓ -74%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $3,642.14 ↓ -73%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $4,198.74 ↓ -69%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $4,622.48 ↓ -66%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $5,383.00 ↓ -61%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $5,383.00 ↓ -61%
Cigna Commercial $5,383.00 ↓ -61%
Aetna Commercial $5,705.98 ↓ -58%
Geisinger Commercial $5,921.30 ↓ -57%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $8,612.80 ↓ -37%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $21,560.95 ↑ +57%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $23,492.97 ↑ +71%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Icd reliance df4 ib 64cm at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $18,804.00 $6,268.00 – $26,639.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $48,679.20 $4,622.48 – $4,622.48
UPMC Memorial York $18,804.00 $1,297.97 – $21,560.95
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $15,159.00 $4,622.48 – $17,025.45
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $24,073.20 $4,666.50 – $31,287.64
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $68,619.60 $4,666.50 – $34,860.21
UPMC Somerset Somerset $18,804.00 $4,575.73 – $12,914.24
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $14,973.00 $4,991.00 – $22,459.50

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