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Marker biop eviva buckle ss at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$1,213.80
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.
$2,023.00
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.
$26.00 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $217.62 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) — 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 | $26.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $26.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $26.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $26.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $27.56 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $28.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $28.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $28.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $41.60 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $106.02 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $188.77 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $194.38 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $211.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $217.62 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Marker biop eviva buckle ss at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,261.20 | $119.89 – $567.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,213.20 | $2.19 – $13.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $400.80 | $13.25 – $235.21 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $149.40 | $0.25 – $153.49 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $216.60 | $54.15 – $324.90 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,036.40 | $13.25 – $282.06 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,051.60 | $7.38 – $314.27 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,213.20 | $3.20 – $116.42 |