Contrast exam thoracic aorta 75605-26 at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$9,796.20
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.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$16,327.00
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.
$36.02 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $24,155.22 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $36.02 | ↓ -100% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $49.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $49.53 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $50.70 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $53.12 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $56.81 | ↓ -99% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $66.46 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,271.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $1,271.52 | ↓ -87% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,902.49 | ↓ -81% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $3,102.13 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $3,102.13 | ↓ -68% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $3,951.13 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $5,112.43 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Medicare | $5,164.07 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $5,386.13 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $5,422.27 | ↓ -45% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $5,422.27 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5,525.55 | ↓ -44% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5,577.20 | ↓ -43% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $8,262.51 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | ACO | $9,273.74 | ↓ -5% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $10,690.92 | ↑ +9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $11,095.83 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $11,095.83 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $11,095.83 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $11,428.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $11,886.06 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $12,016.67 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $13,877.95 | ↑ +42% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $13,877.95 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $14,204.49 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $17,131.29 | ↑ +75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $18,368.60 | ↑ +88% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $24,155.22 | ↑ +147% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Contrast exam thoracic aorta 75605-26 at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $3,778.20 | $27.50 – $5,037.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $9,796.20 | $36.02 – $13,877.95 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $9,796.20 | $36.02 – $13,877.95 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $5,562.00 | $42.90 – $7,416.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,766.60 | $42.90 – $6,823.64 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $3,606.00 | $31.62 – $6,442.11 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $9,796.20 | $36.02 – $8,307.14 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $4,509.60 | $42.90 – $5,565.99 |