Ghs gastric intub aspiration lavage at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$403.20
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.
$672.00
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.
$20.97 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $1,058.14 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.
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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $20.97 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $20.97 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $21.46 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $22.49 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $24.05 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $28.14 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $32.97 | ↓ -92% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $127.68 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $127.68 | ↓ -68% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $162.62 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $294.51 | ↓ -27% |
| Humana | Medicare | $297.48 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $310.27 | ↓ -23% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $312.35 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $312.35 | ↓ -23% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $318.30 | ↓ -21% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $321.28 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | ACO | $381.70 | ↓ -5% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $440.03 | ↑ +9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $456.69 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $456.69 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $456.69 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $470.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $475.97 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $489.22 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $524.16 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $571.20 | ↑ +42% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $571.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $584.64 | ↑ +45% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $742.95 | ↑ +84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $986.86 | ↑ +145% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,016.56 | ↑ +152% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,058.14 | ↑ +162% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ghs gastric intub aspiration lavage at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $172.80 | $16.51 – $230.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $403.20 | $20.97 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $190.20 | $16.08 – $98.03 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $403.20 | $20.97 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $229.20 | $18.16 – $311.72 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $213.60 | $18.16 – $431.79 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $252.00 | $18.16 – $311.72 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $463.20 | $18.16 – $320.63 |