Removal w/reinsrt nonbiogrdble at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$1,712.40
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.
$2,854.00
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.
$165.98 with Aetna vs $3,383.88 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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| Aetna | Medicaid | $165.98 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $174.28 | ↓ -90% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $182.58 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $230.70 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $246.15 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $250.30 | ↓ -85% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $259.11 | ↓ -85% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $282.86 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $387.97 | ↓ -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 | $393.21 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $394.36 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $404.78 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $407.07 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $410.88 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $410.88 | ↓ -76% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $410.88 | ↓ -76% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $410.88 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,427.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,427.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,462.96 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,512.62 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,569.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $2,283.20 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,105.59 | ↑ +81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,383.88 | ↑ +98% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $293.40 | $98.03 – $404.78 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $271.20 | $182.58 – $598.67 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,503.80 | $182.58 – $410.88 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $3,059.40 | $182.58 – $527.85 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $2,071.20 | $182.58 – $404.78 |
| UPMC Williamsport | Williamsport | $278.40 | $182.58 – $447.15 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $513.50 | $79.53 – $899.32 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | not published | $137.26 – $410.88 |