Graft apligraf 3in 44sqcm-q4101-cost per sq cm at UPMC Hamot

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$64.20

Cash price

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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.

$107.00

Gross charge

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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.

$16.05 with Univera vs $282.10 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Univera Univera_Medicare_Hamot_2024 $16.05 ↓ -75%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $17.12 ↓ -73%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $19.09 ↓ -70%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $20.33 ↓ -68%
Aetna Commercial $26.75 ↓ -58%
Cigna NBR ASO/FI $32.10 ↓ -50%
Cigna New Business ASO $32.10 ↓ -50%
Univera Commercial $35.31 ↓ -45%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $35.31 ↓ -45%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $35.31 ↓ -45%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $36.20 ↓ -44%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $39.38 ↓ -39%
Cigna Commercial $42.80 ↓ -33%
Cigna EBR $42.80 ↓ -33%
Aetna Medicare $42.80 ↓ -33%
United Healthcare Commercial $48.63 ↓ -24%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $53.50 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage $58.35 ↓ -9%
InterGroup Health Coalition Partners/PPO $69.55 ↑ +8%
BCBS of Western NY Commercial $70.93 ↑ +10%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) $74.90 ↑ +17%
Aetna AXA/MMO $74.90 ↑ +17%
InterGroup Beech Street $85.60 ↑ +33%
Multiplan Complimentary Network Rate (Includes Multiplan as Payer) $85.60 ↑ +33%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial - Indemnity/Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care/Managed Care - Social Mission $176.31 ↑ +175%
Highmark BCBS of PA UPMC Emergent $282.10 ↑ +339%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Graft apligraf 3in 44sqcm-q4101-cost per sq cm at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $62.40 $19.09 – $91.44
UPMC Bedford Everett $64.20 $19.09 – $161.81
UPMC Cole Coudersport $2,605.20 $30.23 – $176.00
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $74.40 $30.23 – $58.90
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $3,426.40 $30.23 – $33.56
UPMC Williamsport Williamsport $62.40 $30.23 – $33.56
Uniontown Hospital Uniontown $143.50 $126.52 – $294.79

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