Mayo gabapentin bld/srm/plasma therapeutic drug level at UPMC Altoona

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

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

$241.80

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.

$403.00

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.

$13.35 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $322.40 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $13.35 ↓ -94%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $14.47 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicaid $14.47 ↓ -94%
CBHNP Commercial $14.47 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $15.19 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $15.92 ↓ -93%
Geisinger Medicaid $20.11 ↓ -92%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $21.42 ↓ -91%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $21.46 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $22.10 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $22.46 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $22.59 ↓ -91%
United Healthcare Medicare $23.19 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $23.40 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $23.40 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $23.40 ↓ -90%
Cigna Medicare $23.40 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $24.66 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $122.30 ↓ -49%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $133.26 ↓ -45%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $201.50 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial $201.50 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Commercial $206.58 ↓ -15%
Aetna Commercial $213.59 ↓ -12%
Geisinger Commercial $221.65 ↓ -8%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $322.40 ↑ +33%

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Mayo gabapentin bld/srm/plasma therapeutic drug level at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Bedford Everett $88.20 $7.82 – $132.30
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $55.80 $12.74 – $79.05
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $55.80 $14.47 – $122.30
UPMC East Monroeville $203.40 $13.47 – $271.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $307.20 $13.35 – $23.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $141.00 $15.92 – $23.40
UPMC Hanover Hanover $55.80 $14.47 – $34.67
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $134.40 $14.47 – $23.40

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