Stent axios caut enh 15x10mm electrocaut at UPMC Altoona

620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 12, 2026

$44,236.80

Cash price

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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.

$73,728.00

Gross charge

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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.

$392.73 with Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) vs $11,610.32 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $392.73 ↓ -99%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $682.11 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Medicaid $682.11 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $699.27 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $806.13 ↓ -98%
Preferred Healthcare System PPO $1,033.50 ↓ -98%
Cigna Commercial $1,033.50 ↓ -98%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $1,033.50 ↓ -98%
Aetna Commercial $1,095.51 ↓ -98%
Geisinger Commercial $1,136.85 ↓ -97%
Private Health Care Systems PPO $1,653.60 ↓ -96%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $1,679.37 ↓ -96%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $10,655.51 ↓ -76%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $11,610.32 ↓ -74%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Stent axios caut enh 15x10mm electrocaut at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Cole Coudersport $3,393.00 $1,074.45 – $4,524.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $10,104.60 $1,299.80 – $10,655.51
UPMC East Monroeville $20,259.00 $1,197.00 – $10,655.51
UPMC Hamot Erie $56,324.40 $1,679.37 – $1,679.37
UPMC Northwest Seneca $4,290.60 $4,358.61 – $12,894.12
UPMC Jameson New Castle $26,710.20 $492.41 – $10,655.51
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $23,331.00 $541.65 – $10,655.51
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $12,459.00 $541.65 – $10,655.51

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