Application of paste boot 29580 at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$496.20
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$827.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$94.72 with UPMC Work Partners vs $9,539.00 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $94.72 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $116.47 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $149.23 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare | $150.74 | ↓ -70% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $157.13 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $157.13 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $157.22 | ↓ -68% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $158.28 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $158.28 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $161.29 | ↓ -67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $162.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $200.13 | ↓ -60% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $241.18 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $417.65 | ↓ -16% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $454.85 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $454.85 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | ACO | $469.74 | ↓ -5% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $500.06 | ↑ +1% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $536.18 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $541.52 | ↑ +9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $562.03 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $562.03 | ↑ +13% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $562.03 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $578.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $602.06 | ↑ +21% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $702.95 | ↑ +42% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $702.95 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $719.49 | ↑ +45% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $9,539.00 | ↑ +1822% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Application of paste boot 29580 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $316.20 | $88.00 – $421.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $897.00 | $54.28 – $1,345.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $496.20 | $83.02 – $702.95 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $307.80 | $46.29 – $143.64 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $496.20 | $94.72 – $702.95 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $725.40 | $99.42 – $967.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $754.20 | $99.42 – $218.80 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $336.00 | $90.51 – $337.70 |