Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$7.80
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.
$13.00
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.
$2.47 with Capital Blue Cross vs $32.33 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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| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $2.47 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $2.47 | ↓ -68% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $3.15 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $6.05 | ↓ -22% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $6.85 | ↓ -12% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $7.15 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $7.15 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $7.80 | ↑ +0% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $8.51 | ↑ +9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $8.83 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $8.83 | ↑ +13% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $8.83 | ↑ +13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $9.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Humana | Medicare | $9.09 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $9.10 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $9.13 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $9.48 | ↑ +22% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $9.54 | ↑ +22% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $9.54 | ↑ +22% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $9.73 | ↑ +25% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $9.82 | ↑ +26% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $11.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $11.05 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $11.31 | ↑ +45% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $14.54 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | ACO | $16.00 | ↑ +105% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $20.00 | ↑ +156% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $30.16 | ↑ +287% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $32.33 | ↑ +314% |
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Collection of venous blood by venipuncture at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $20.40 | $0.02 – $27.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $7.80 | $0.05 – $11.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $7.80 | $1.78 – $14.54 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $18.00 | $1.95 – $23.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $7.80 | $0.07 – $11.05 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $15.60 | $0.02 – $20.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $22.80 | $0.02 – $9.82 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $10.20 | $0.05 – $9.82 |