Culture fungi other (except blood) at UPMC Hanover

300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$46.80

Cash price

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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.

$78.00

Gross charge

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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.

$8.33 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $67.86 with Wellspan Population Health — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $8.33 ↓ -82%
Aetna Commercial $8.41 ↓ -82%
Humana Medicare $8.41 ↓ -82%
Aetna ACO $8.41 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $8.69 ↓ -81%
Aetna Medicare $8.77 ↓ -81%
Cigna Medicare $8.83 ↓ -81%
Geisinger Medicare $8.83 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare $9.00 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $9.08 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $9.70 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Commercial $11.41 ↓ -76%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $12.32 ↓ -74%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $12.61 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $12.71 ↓ -73%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $13.21 ↓ -72%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $13.46 ↓ -71%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $14.13 ↓ -70%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $14.82 ↓ -68%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $14.82 ↓ -68%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $16.53 ↓ -65%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $18.88 ↓ -60%
Cigna Commercial $21.88 ↓ -53%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $27.90 ↓ -40%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $29.91 ↓ -36%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $37.02 ↓ -21%
Geisinger Commercial $51.07 ↑ +9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $53.01 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $53.01 ↑ +13%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $53.01 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $54.60 ↑ +17%
CareFirst Commercial $66.30 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $66.30 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $67.86 ↑ +45%

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Culture fungi other (except blood) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $118.80 $8.31 – $158.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $58.80 $3.03 – $88.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $46.80 $8.33 – $66.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $60.00 $5.47 – $80.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $46.80 $8.33 – $66.30
UPMC East Monroeville $125.40 $8.31 – $167.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $125.40 $8.31 – $16.25
UPMC Northwest Seneca $80.40 $7.63 – $11.15

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