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Colonoscopy (diagnostic) at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
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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.
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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.
$229.24 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $5,035.00 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 | $229.24 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $234.65 | — |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $243.68 | — |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $245.84 | — |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $262.92 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $307.61 | — |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $580.33 | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $769.69 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $862.25 | — |
| Humana | Medicare | $870.96 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $908.41 | — |
| Cigna | Medicare | $914.51 | — |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $914.51 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $931.93 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $940.64 | — |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $1,393.54 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,315.60 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $2,889.32 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $3,098.00 | — |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5,035.00 | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ACO | not published by hospital | — |
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Colonoscopy (diagnostic) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,685.40 | $198.55 – $2,125.00 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,500.00 | $180.50 – $2,000.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $609.00 | $189.53 – $1,041.88 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,500.00 | $198.55 – $2,000.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,500.00 | $198.55 – $1,750.00 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,500.00 | $198.55 – $2,125.00 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $1,500.00 | $198.55 – $2,200.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,500.00 | $189.53 – $2,250.00 |