Ua w/micro/comp poc at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$4.80
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.
$8.00
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.
$3.97 with UPMC Work Partners vs $8.85 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3.97 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $4.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $4.00 | ↓ -17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $4.10 | ↓ -15% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $4.10 | ↓ -15% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $4.17 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $4.24 | ↓ -12% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $4.30 | ↓ -10% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $4.32 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $4.32 | ↓ -10% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $4.34 | ↓ -10% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $4.34 | ↓ -10% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $4.34 | ↓ -10% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $4.34 | ↓ -10% |
| CBHNP | Commercial | $4.37 | ↓ -9% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $4.40 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $4.54 | ↓ -5% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $4.75 | ↓ -1% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $6.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $6.10 | ↑ +27% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $6.40 | ↑ +33% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $6.41 | ↑ +34% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $6.74 | ↑ +40% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $7.36 | ↑ +53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $8.12 | ↑ +69% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $8.85 | ↑ +84% |
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Ua w/micro/comp poc at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $24.00 | $2.61 – $32.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $18.00 | $3.98 – $25.50 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $26.40 | $2.26 – $7.54 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $18.60 | $2.36 – $7.36 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $22.80 | $2.29 – $7.36 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $25.80 | $2.24 – $6.10 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $28.20 | $2.25 – $6.15 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $33.60 | $2.38 – $6.72 |