Trnscath tx thromblytc artery non-intracrn ini day at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$2,252.40
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.
$3,754.00
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.
$323.85 with Aetna vs $5,565.99 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) — 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 | $323.85 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $340.04 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $345.16 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $356.24 | ↓ -84% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $450.12 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $480.27 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $488.37 | ↓ -78% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $505.56 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $551.91 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $577.77 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,313.90 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,877.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $1,877.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,877.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,924.30 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,989.62 | ↓ -12% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,064.70 | ↓ -8% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $3,003.20 | ↑ +33% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $5,255.73 | ↑ +133% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $5,342.32 | ↑ +137% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5,514.45 | ↑ +145% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↑ +147% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↑ +147% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5,565.99 | ↑ +147% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $5,565.99 | ↑ +147% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $6,966.60 | $411.29 – $9,869.35 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $6,966.60 | $437.20 – $9,869.35 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $14,086.20 | $348.45 – $18,781.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $6,346.80 | $345.16 – $7,495.67 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $8,554.80 | $356.24 – $5,411.37 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $6,966.60 | $411.29 – $8,262.51 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $5,764.20 | $351.25 – $6,957.48 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $6,966.60 | $411.29 – $8,307.14 |