Mayo hvdip HIV 2 antibody at UPMC Altoona

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

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

$144.00

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.

$240.00

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.

$13.36 with UPMC Work Partners vs $192.00 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $13.36 ↓ -91%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $13.79 ↓ -90%
CBHNP Commercial $13.83 ↓ -90%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $13.83 ↓ -90%
Aetna Medicaid $13.83 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Partners/Select $14.01 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Medicare $14.47 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $14.52 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $14.60 ↓ -90%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $14.60 ↓ -90%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $14.60 ↓ -90%
Cigna Medicare $14.60 ↓ -90%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $15.21 ↓ -89%
Geisinger Medicaid $19.22 ↓ -87%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $20.51 ↓ -86%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $21.59 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $23.57 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $26.56 ↓ -82%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $69.44 ↓ -52%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $75.66 ↓ -47%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $120.00 ↓ -17%
Cigna Commercial $120.00 ↓ -17%
United Healthcare Commercial $123.02 ↓ -15%
Aetna Commercial $127.20 ↓ -12%
Geisinger Commercial $132.00 ↓ -8%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $192.00 ↑ +33%

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Mayo hvdip HIV 2 antibody at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Bedford Everett $173.40 $4.88 – $260.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $75.60 $13.16 – $107.10
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $75.60 $13.38 – $107.10
UPMC East Monroeville $108.00 $13.36 – $144.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $130.20 $13.36 – $34.60
UPMC Northwest Seneca $90.60 $12.26 – $15.90
UPMC Hanover Hanover $75.60 $13.16 – $21.63
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $204.00 $12.10 – $25.37

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