Alpha-fetoprotein amniotic at UPMC Hanover

300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981

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

$62.40

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.

$104.00

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.

$16.83 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $90.48 with Wellspan Population Health — 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $16.83 ↓ -73%
Aetna ACO $17.00 ↓ -73%
Humana Medicare $17.00 ↓ -73%
Aetna Commercial $17.00 ↓ -73%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $17.59 ↓ -72%
Aetna Medicare $17.73 ↓ -72%
Geisinger Medicare $17.85 ↓ -71%
Cigna Medicare $17.85 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare Medicare $18.19 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $18.36 ↓ -71%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $19.76 ↓ -68%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $19.76 ↓ -68%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $20.00 ↓ -68%
United Healthcare Commercial $24.85 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $25.17 ↓ -60%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $25.40 ↓ -59%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $26.00 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $26.20 ↓ -58%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $27.20 ↓ -56%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $27.24 ↓ -56%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $29.13 ↓ -53%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $34.08 ↓ -45%
Cigna Commercial $44.20 ↓ -29%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $56.40 ↓ -10%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $60.47 ↓ -3%
Geisinger Commercial $68.10 ↑ +9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $70.68 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $70.68 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $70.68 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $72.80 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $84.11 ↑ +35%
CareFirst Commercial $88.40 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $88.40 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $90.48 ↑ +45%

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Alpha-fetoprotein amniotic at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $160.20 $16.80 – $213.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $203.40 $6.13 – $305.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $62.40 $14.25 – $88.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $62.40 $16.83 – $88.40
UPMC East Monroeville $141.00 $16.80 – $188.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $183.00 $16.80 – $32.42
UPMC Northwest Seneca $193.80 $15.42 – $23.00
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $117.60 $15.22 – $31.90

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