Transcath closure of asd at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$11,757.60
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.
$19,596.00
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.
$1,813.05 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $18,489.15 with AmeriHealth Caritas — 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 | $1,813.05 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,820.40 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $4,893.78 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $5,332.30 | ↓ -55% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $9,798.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $9,798.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $10,044.91 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $10,385.88 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $10,777.80 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $10,777.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $10,777.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $15,676.80 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $17,458.55 | ↑ +48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $17,746.16 | ↑ +51% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $18,317.95 | ↑ +56% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $18,489.15 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $18,489.15 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $18,489.15 | ↑ +57% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $18,489.15 | ↑ +57% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Transcath closure of asd at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $29,803.20 | $1,016.56 – $42,221.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $29,803.20 | $1,016.56 – $42,221.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $15,964.20 | $1,813.05 – $24,899.21 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $29,803.20 | $1,016.56 – $27,446.48 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $29,803.20 | $1,016.56 – $27,594.74 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $29,803.20 | $1,016.56 – $27,549.92 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $15,283.20 | $1,820.40 – $18,831.54 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $14,788.80 | $931.20 – $18,831.54 |