Target gsa panel organ/hmtlmph neop at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$8,581.80
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.
$14,303.00
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.
$1,851.57 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $22,410.63 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,851.57 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $2,335.68 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $2,335.68 | ↓ -73% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $2,452.46 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $2,569.25 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2,885.51 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $2,977.41 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $3,026.46 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3,123.97 | ↓ -64% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $3,153.17 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3,153.17 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $3,153.17 | ↓ -63% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3,153.17 | ↓ -63% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $3,246.36 | ↓ -62% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $3,463.81 | ↓ -60% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $3,646.23 | ↓ -58% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $3,980.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $4,517.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4,517.50 | ↓ -47% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $4,631.34 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $4,788.55 | ↓ -44% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $4,969.25 | ↓ -42% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $7,228.00 | ↓ -16% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $20,567.62 | ↑ +140% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $22,410.63 | ↑ +161% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $5,739.00 | $1,053.39 – $3,640.50 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $7,632.00 | $1,869.20 – $7,652.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $7,632.00 | $1,851.57 – $3,246.36 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $5,739.00 | $2,569.25 – $3,153.17 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $5,739.00 | $2,335.68 – $3,246.36 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $5,739.00 | $1,884.24 – $3,153.17 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $9,920.40 | $1,869.20 – $3,980.47 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $5,739.00 | $1,869.20 – $3,211.56 |