Kit gene analys d816 variant at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$1,195.20
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.
$1,992.00
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.
$87.25 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $1,060.80 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.
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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $87.25 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $99.90 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $99.90 | ↓ -92% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $104.89 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $109.89 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $123.41 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $127.34 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $129.44 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $133.61 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $134.86 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $134.86 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $134.86 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $134.86 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $138.85 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $148.15 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $155.95 | ↓ -87% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $170.25 | ↓ -86% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $663.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $663.00 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $679.71 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $702.78 | ↓ -41% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $729.30 | ↓ -39% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $800.41 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $872.13 | ↓ -27% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,060.80 | ↓ -11% |
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Kit gene analys d816 variant at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $721.80 | $99.90 – $1,022.55 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $721.80 | $99.90 – $1,022.55 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,218.00 | $88.08 – $1,496.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,122.00 | $87.25 – $138.85 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,229.40 | $109.89 – $134.86 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $721.80 | $99.90 – $199.79 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,229.40 | $99.90 – $141.08 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $1,229.40 | $88.79 – $134.86 |