Mopath procedure level 8 at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$1,672.20
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.
$2,787.00
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.
$357.00 with Cigna vs $3,291.31 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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| Cigna | Commercial | $357.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $357.00 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $366.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $378.42 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $392.70 | ↓ -77% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $392.70 | ↓ -77% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $392.70 | ↓ -77% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $571.20 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $836.39 | ↓ -50% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $863.03 | ↓ -48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $877.24 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $905.51 | ↓ -46% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $913.97 | ↓ -45% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $913.97 | ↓ -45% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $913.97 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $913.97 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,897.78 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,020.64 | ↑ +81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,291.31 | ↑ +97% |
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Mopath procedure level 8 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,687.80 | $305.33 – $2,098.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,687.80 | $332.31 – $1,915.85 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $3,643.80 | $836.39 – $1,897.78 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,687.80 | $767.48 – $913.97 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,820.40 | $757.67 – $1,588.03 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $1,687.80 | $593.65 – $1,931.27 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $3,608.40 | $792.02 – $1,915.85 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $1,687.80 | $784.41 – $1,915.85 |