Monitor reveal linq ii cardiac at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$14,205.60
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.
$23,676.00
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.
$2,286.46 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $16,995.10 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,286.46 | ↓ -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 | $2,358.91 | ↓ -83% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $3,971.22 | ↓ -72% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $3,971.22 | ↓ -72% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $4,071.10 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $4,693.26 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $6,017.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $6,017.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $6,017.00 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $6,378.02 | ↓ -55% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $6,618.70 | ↓ -53% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $9,627.20 | ↓ -32% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $15,597.46 | ↑ +10% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $16,995.10 | ↑ +20% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $13,107.60 | $4,369.20 – $18,569.10 |
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