Vaccine rabies im at UPMC Altoona
620 Howard Avenue, Altoona, PA · UPMC · · NPI 112418570
$800.00
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.
$1,000.00
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.
$10.00 with Aetna vs $983.34 with United Healthcare — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicaid | $10.00 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $10.50 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $11.00 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $13.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $15.08 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $255.59 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $313.68 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $313.68 | ↓ -61% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $313.68 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $319.89 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Partners/Select | $325.16 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $335.64 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $338.77 | ↓ -58% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $338.77 | ↓ -58% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $338.77 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $338.77 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $371.80 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $376.83 | ↓ -53% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $385.83 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $500.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Preferred Healthcare System | PPO | $500.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $530.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $550.00 | ↓ -31% |
| Private Health Care Systems | PPO | $800.00 | ↑ +0% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $983.34 | ↑ +23% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Vaccine rabies im at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $800.00 | $11.00 – $900.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $259.80 | $10.50 – $501.89 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $319.20 | $10.50 – $425.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $259.80 | $10.50 – $385.83 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $800.00 | $11.00 – $800.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $800.00 | $11.00 – $342.94 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $800.00 | $11.00 – $329.36 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $259.80 | $10.50 – $501.89 |