Glucose body fluid 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

$21.00

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.

$35.00

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.

$3.89 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $45.75 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.

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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 $3.89 ↓ -81%
Humana Medicare $3.93 ↓ -81%
Aetna Commercial $3.93 ↓ -81%
Aetna ACO $3.93 ↓ -81%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4.07 ↓ -81%
Aetna Medicare $4.10 ↓ -80%
Cigna Medicare $4.13 ↓ -80%
Geisinger Medicare $4.13 ↓ -80%
United Healthcare Medicare $4.21 ↓ -80%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4.24 ↓ -80%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $4.34 ↓ -79%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $5.51 ↓ -74%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $5.64 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $5.69 ↓ -73%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $5.91 ↓ -72%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $6.29 ↓ -70%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $6.32 ↓ -70%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $6.65 ↓ -68%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $6.65 ↓ -68%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $7.40 ↓ -65%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $8.47 ↓ -60%
Cigna Commercial $10.20 ↓ -51%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $13.04 ↓ -38%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $13.98 ↓ -33%
United Healthcare Commercial $21.17 ↑ +1%
Geisinger Commercial $22.92 ↑ +9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $23.79 ↑ +13%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $23.79 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $23.79 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $24.50 ↑ +17%
CareFirst Commercial $29.75 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $29.75 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $30.45 ↑ +45%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $45.75 ↑ +118%

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Glucose body fluid at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $58.20 $3.89 – $77.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $33.00 $1.42 – $49.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $21.00 $3.89 – $29.75
UPMC Cole Coudersport $41.40 $2.55 – $55.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $21.00 $3.89 – $45.75
UPMC East Monroeville $80.40 $3.89 – $107.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $117.00 $3.89 – $10.41
UPMC Northwest Seneca $34.80 $3.56 – $4.99

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