Infect ag na hpv high-risk types at UPMC Altoona

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

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

$205.80

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.

$343.00

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.

$32.29 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $346.46 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $32.29 ↓ -84%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $34.68 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $35.78 ↓ -83%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $36.37 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Medicare $37.55 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $37.90 ↓ -82%
Cigna Medicare $37.90 ↓ -82%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $37.90 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $37.90 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicaid $38.21 ↓ -81%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $38.21 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $40.12 ↓ -81%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $42.03 ↓ -80%
Geisinger Medicaid $53.11 ↓ -74%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $56.67 ↓ -72%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $59.65 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $65.12 ↓ -68%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $171.50 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial $171.50 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Commercial $175.82 ↓ -15%
Aetna Commercial $181.79 ↓ -12%
Geisinger Commercial $188.65 ↓ -8%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $274.40 ↑ +33%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $317.97 ↑ +55%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $346.46 ↑ +68%

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Infect ag na hpv high-risk types at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Bedford Everett $210.00 $12.66 – $315.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $195.60 $34.74 – $277.10
UPMC Cole Coudersport $310.80 $22.81 – $414.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $195.60 $34.74 – $317.97
UPMC East Monroeville $697.20 $32.59 – $929.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $190.20 $32.29 – $53.11
UPMC Northwest Seneca $284.40 $31.82 – $43.94
UPMC Hanover Hanover $195.60 $34.74 – $56.14

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