Pet fdg brain metoblic eval sb at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$4,077.60
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.
$6,796.00
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.
$613.27 with Aetna vs $5,436.80 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.
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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| Aetna | Medicaid | $613.27 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $643.93 | ↓ -84% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $674.60 | ↓ -83% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $852.38 | ↓ -79% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $909.48 | ↓ -78% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $924.81 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $957.38 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $1,045.13 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $2,429.95 | ↓ -40% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,398.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,398.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $3,398.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,483.63 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $3,601.88 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $3,737.80 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $4,718.45 | ↑ +16% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5,141.25 | ↑ +26% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $5,436.80 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $5,639.40 | $800.00 – $7,989.15 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $6,180.00 | $717.24 – $8,240.00 |
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| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $5,639.40 | $800.00 – $7,584.17 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $4,480.80 | $751.40 – $5,997.30 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $5,639.40 | $800.00 – $7,584.17 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $7,773.00 | $751.40 – $2,453.09 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $5,639.40 | $800.00 – $7,584.17 |