Kidney imag w/bld flow multi at UPMC Altoona

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

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

$927.60

Cash price

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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.

$1,546.00

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.

$185.64 with Aetna vs $1,236.80 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
Aetna Medicaid $185.64 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $194.92 ↓ -79%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $204.20 ↓ -78%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $247.33 ↓ -73%
Geisinger Medicaid $258.02 ↓ -72%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $275.30 ↓ -70%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $279.95 ↓ -70%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $289.80 ↓ -69%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $316.37 ↓ -66%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $354.54 ↓ -62%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $771.06 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial $773.00 ↓ -17%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $773.00 ↓ -17%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $773.00 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Commercial $792.48 ↓ -15%
Aetna Commercial $819.38 ↓ -12%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $840.16 ↓ -9%
Geisinger Commercial $850.30 ↓ -8%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,236.80 ↑ +33%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Kidney imag w/bld flow multi at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,574.40 $34.66 – $823.87
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,574.40 $50.60 – $771.06
UPMC East Monroeville $2,274.60 $249.69 – $3,032.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $1,749.60 $247.33 – $700.71
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,574.40 $243.19 – $822.74
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $933.00 $262.35 – $554.23
UPMC Lititz Lititz $1,574.40 $243.19 – $827.18
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,094.40 $249.69 – $554.23

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