Culture urine each isolate at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$45.60
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.
$76.00
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.
$8.00 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $66.12 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.
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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $8.01 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $8.09 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | ACO | $8.09 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare | $8.09 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $8.37 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $8.44 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $8.49 | ↓ -81% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $8.49 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $8.66 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $8.74 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $10.16 | ↓ -78% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $10.40 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $10.48 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $10.90 | ↓ -76% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $11.65 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $11.95 | ↓ -74% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $12.94 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $13.63 | ↓ -70% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $14.44 | ↓ -68% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $14.44 | ↓ -68% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $18.39 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $21.04 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $26.84 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $28.78 | ↓ -37% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $49.76 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $50.46 | ↑ +11% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $51.65 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $51.65 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $51.65 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $53.20 | ↑ +17% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $64.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $64.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $66.12 | ↑ +45% |
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Culture urine each isolate at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $58.80 | $2.92 – $88.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $45.60 | $8.00 – $64.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $58.20 | $5.26 – $77.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $45.60 | $8.00 – $50.46 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $62.40 | $8.00 – $15.63 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $40.80 | $7.34 – $9.20 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $60.60 | $7.24 – $15.18 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $25.80 | $8.00 – $15.91 |