Insert sq defib electrode 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

$12,994.80

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.

$21,658.00

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.

$700.05 with UPMC Work Partners vs $28,121.78 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $700.05 ↓ -95%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $4,115.02 ↓ -68%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $4,115.02 ↓ -68%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $5,241.24 ↓ -60%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $6,522.87 ↓ -50%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $7,826.98 ↓ -40%
Humana Medicare $7,906.04 ↓ -39%
Aetna Medicare $8,246.00 ↓ -37%
Cigna Medicare $8,301.34 ↓ -36%
Geisinger Medicare $8,301.34 ↓ -36%
United Healthcare Medicare $8,459.46 ↓ -35%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $8,538.52 ↓ -34%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $11,911.90 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $11,911.90 ↓ -8%
Aetna ACO $12,301.74 ↓ -5%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $12,649.66 ↓ -3%
Geisinger Commercial $14,181.66 ↑ +9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $14,718.78 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $14,718.78 ↑ +13%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $14,718.78 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $15,160.60 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $15,160.60 ↑ +17%
Aetna Commercial $15,767.02 ↑ +21%
Cigna Commercial $17,298.00 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $18,409.30 ↑ +42%
CareFirst Commercial $18,409.30 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $18,842.46 ↑ +45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $26,227.50 ↑ +102%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $28,121.78 ↑ +116%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
United Healthcare Commercial not published by hospital

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Insert sq defib electrode at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $12,994.80 $700.05 – $18,409.30
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $12,994.80 $700.05 – $18,409.30
UPMC Lititz Lititz $12,994.80 $700.05 – $12,718.00
UPMC Memorial York $12,994.80 $268.94 – $12,697.34
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $14,554.20 $329.97 – $8,679.17
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $18,924.60 $333.12 – $8,679.17
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $20,059.80 $333.12 – $8,679.17
UPMC Somerset Somerset $12,994.80 $326.64 – $8,520.57

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