Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer manual screening at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$48.60
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.
$81.00
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.
$15.39 with Capital Blue Cross vs $135.30 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 | $15.39 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $15.39 | ↓ -68% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $16.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $19.60 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $20.06 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $20.26 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare | $20.26 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | ACO | $20.26 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $20.32 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $20.80 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $20.95 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $20.96 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $21.13 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $21.27 | ↓ -56% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $21.27 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $21.68 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $21.79 | ↓ -55% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $21.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $23.31 | ↓ -52% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $27.27 | ↓ -44% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $32.42 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $52.68 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $53.04 | ↑ +9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $55.05 | ↑ +13% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $55.05 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $55.05 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $56.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $67.21 | ↑ +38% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $68.85 | ↑ +42% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $68.85 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $70.47 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $72.06 | ↑ +48% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $135.30 | ↑ +178% |
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Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer manual screening at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $61.20 | $16.00 – $81.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $61.20 | $7.31 – $91.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $48.60 | $11.10 – $68.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $115.20 | $16.00 – $135.30 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $61.20 | $16.00 – $81.60 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $61.20 | $17.60 – $21.88 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $61.20 | $16.00 – $38.02 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $124.20 | $17.60 – $87.44 |