Infect ag genotype na hiv-1 revr trn/prt at UPMC Altoona

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

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

$2,403.60

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.

$4,006.00

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.

$254.45 with UPMC Work Partners vs $3,204.80 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.

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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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $254.45 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $262.55 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $266.87 ↓ -89%
United Healthcare Medicare $275.47 ↓ -89%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $278.05 ↓ -88%
Cigna Medicare $278.05 ↓ -88%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $278.05 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $278.05 ↓ -88%
Aetna Medicaid $284.62 ↓ -88%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $284.62 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $298.85 ↓ -88%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $313.08 ↓ -87%
Geisinger Medicaid $395.59 ↓ -84%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $422.09 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $444.32 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $485.05 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $683.37 ↓ -72%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,239.56 ↓ -48%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,350.63 ↓ -44%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $2,003.00 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial $2,003.00 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Commercial $2,053.48 ↓ -15%
Aetna Commercial $2,123.18 ↓ -12%
Geisinger Commercial $2,203.30 ↓ -8%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $3,204.80 ↑ +33%

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Infect ag genotype na hiv-1 revr trn/prt at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Bedford Everett $4,483.20 $92.89 – $6,724.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,431.00 $193.10 – $2,027.25
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,431.00 $254.88 – $2,027.25
UPMC East Monroeville $5,280.00 $254.45 – $7,040.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $1,336.20 $254.45 – $683.37
UPMC Northwest Seneca $2,065.80 $233.48 – $327.31
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,431.00 $193.10 – $411.92
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $1,823.40 $230.49 – $483.10

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