Collection blood specimen using established central/peripheral catheter venous nos at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$537.00
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.
$895.00
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.
$40.20 with UPMC Work Partners vs $438.01 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.
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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $40.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $53.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $53.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $67.76 | ↓ -87% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $92.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $121.91 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare | $123.14 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $128.44 | ↓ -76% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $129.30 | ↓ -76% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $129.30 | ↓ -76% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $131.76 | ↓ -75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $132.99 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $138.21 | ↓ -74% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $154.00 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $154.00 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | ACO | $159.04 | ↓ -70% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $183.34 | ↓ -66% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $190.29 | ↓ -65% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $190.29 | ↓ -65% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $190.29 | ↓ -65% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $196.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $197.02 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $203.84 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $218.40 | ↓ -59% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $238.00 | ↓ -56% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $238.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $243.60 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $371.00 | ↓ -31% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $408.50 | ↓ -24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $438.01 | ↓ -18% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Collection blood specimen using established central/peripheral catheter venous nos at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $93.60 | $38.42 – $132.72 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $266.40 | $38.42 – $399.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $537.00 | $38.36 – $238.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $86.40 | $18.57 – $53.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $537.00 | $40.20 – $238.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $436.80 | $38.42 – $582.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $138.60 | $38.42 – $153.18 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $240.00 | $38.42 – $132.72 |