Esoph imped funct test > 1hr 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

$1,121.40

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.

$1,869.00

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.

$68.50 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,802.97 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $68.50 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $124.38 ↓ -89%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $124.38 ↓ -89%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $127.32 ↓ -89%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $133.39 ↓ -88%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $142.66 ↓ -87%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $166.91 ↓ -85%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $234.31 ↓ -79%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $353.21 ↓ -69%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $353.21 ↓ -69%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $449.88 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $501.81 ↓ -55%
Humana Medicare $506.88 ↓ -55%
Aetna Medicare $528.68 ↓ -53%
Geisinger Medicare $532.22 ↓ -53%
Cigna Medicare $532.22 ↓ -53%
United Healthcare Medicare $542.36 ↓ -52%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $547.43 ↓ -51%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $553.73 ↓ -51%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $811.01 ↓ -28%
Aetna ACO $1,055.91 ↓ -6%
Geisinger Commercial $1,217.27 ↑ +9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $1,263.38 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $1,263.38 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $1,263.38 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,301.30 ↑ +16%
Aetna Commercial $1,353.35 ↑ +21%
Cigna Commercial $1,450.02 ↑ +29%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $1,580.15 ↑ +41%
CareFirst Commercial $1,580.15 ↑ +41%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $1,617.33 ↑ +44%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $1,681.52 ↑ +50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $1,802.97 ↑ +61%
United Healthcare Commercial not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —
Tricare East Region not published by hospital —

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Esoph imped funct test > 1hr at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $897.60 $51.02 – $1,196.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,121.40 $68.50 – $1,580.15
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,121.40 $68.50 – $1,580.15
UPMC Lititz Lititz $1,121.40 $68.50 – $815.39
UPMC Memorial York $1,121.40 $41.59 – $814.06
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $1,122.00 $51.02 – $556.45
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $1,548.60 $51.51 – $556.45
UPMC Somerset Somerset $1,121.40 $50.51 – $505.86

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