Knee orth pos locking joint 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

$1,288.20

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.

$2,147.00

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.

$242.36 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,867.89 with Wellspan Population Health — 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 $242.36 ↓ -81%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $407.93 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $407.93 ↓ -68%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $459.51 ↓ -64%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $519.57 ↓ -60%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $708.51 ↓ -45%
Aetna Medicare $760.04 ↓ -41%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $815.86 ↓ -37%
Aetna ACO $1,140.06 ↓ -11%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $1,180.85 ↓ -8%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,322.55 ↑ +3%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,385.72 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $1,405.86 ↑ +9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $1,459.10 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $1,459.10 ↑ +13%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $1,459.10 ↑ +13%
Aetna Commercial $1,462.11 ↑ +14%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,502.90 ↑ +17%
Cigna Commercial $1,674.66 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $1,824.95 ↑ +42%
CareFirst Commercial $1,824.95 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $1,867.89 ↑ +45%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid not published by hospital

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Knee orth pos locking joint at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,288.20 $242.36 – $1,824.95
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,288.20 $242.36 – $2,262.72
UPMC Lititz Lititz $1,288.20 $166.69 – $1,385.72
UPMC Memorial York $1,288.20 $166.69 – $1,385.72
UPMC Somerset Somerset $1,288.20 $212.76 – $830.00

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