Msh2 gene full seq at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$1,824.00
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.
$3,040.00
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.
$121.37 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $2,015.73 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 | $121.37 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $121.37 | ↓ -93% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $127.44 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $133.51 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $168.69 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $179.99 | ↓ -90% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $189.47 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $206.84 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $377.24 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $389.26 | ↓ -79% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $395.67 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $408.42 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $412.24 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $412.24 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $412.24 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $412.24 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,061.39 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,199.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,199.00 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,229.21 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,270.94 | ↓ -30% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,318.90 | ↓ -28% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,849.96 | ↑ +1% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $1,918.40 | ↑ +5% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,015.73 | ↑ +11% |
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Msh2 gene full seq at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,523.40 | $121.37 – $2,285.10 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $399.00 | $133.51 – $400.79 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,770.60 | $121.37 – $716.26 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $399.00 | $133.51 – $1,071.50 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,523.40 | $133.51 – $1,061.39 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,194.60 | $133.51 – $403.56 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,522.80 | $133.51 – $1,071.50 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $1,523.40 | $121.37 – $1,071.50 |