Bx thyroid/percutan core needle 60100 at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$924.60
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.
$1,541.00
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.
$83.19 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $3,397.00 with Cigna — 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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $83.19 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $85.15 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $88.42 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $89.21 | ↓ -90% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $95.41 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $111.63 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $217.41 | ↓ -76% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $292.79 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $292.79 | ↓ -68% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $372.92 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $637.67 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $665.42 | ↓ -28% |
| Humana | Medicare | $672.14 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $701.04 | ↓ -24% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $705.75 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $705.75 | ↓ -24% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $719.19 | ↓ -22% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $725.91 | ↓ -21% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $958.92 | ↑ +4% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,009.05 | ↑ +9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,047.26 | ↑ +13% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,047.26 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,047.26 | ↑ +13% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $1,075.42 | ↑ +16% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,078.70 | ↑ +17% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $1,309.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $1,309.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $1,340.67 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $2,229.76 | ↑ +141% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,390.80 | ↑ +159% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,397.00 | ↑ +267% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ACO | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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Bx thyroid/percutan core needle 60100 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $445.20 | $65.50 – $593.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,265.40 | $68.78 – $1,898.10 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $924.60 | $83.19 – $1,309.85 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $93.60 | $43.24 – $2,325.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $924.60 | $83.19 – $958.92 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,122.60 | $72.05 – $217.14 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,240.20 | $72.05 – $704.33 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,180.80 | $72.05 – $724.45 |