Liver ds alys 3 bmrk srm alg 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

$68.40

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.

$114.00

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.

$21.66 with Capital Blue Cross vs $626.71 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
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $21.66 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $21.66 ↓ -68%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $27.59 ↓ -60%
Geisinger Commercial $74.65 ↑ +9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $77.47 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $77.47 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $77.47 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $79.80 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $79.80 ↑ +17%
Cigna Commercial $88.92 ↑ +30%
CareFirst Commercial $96.90 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $96.90 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $99.18 ↑ +45%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $140.95 ↑ +106%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $174.43 ↑ +155%
Humana Medicare $176.19 ↑ +158%
Aetna Commercial $176.19 ↑ +158%
Aetna ACO $176.19 ↑ +158%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $179.01 ↑ +162%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $183.24 ↑ +168%
Aetna Medicare $183.77 ↑ +169%
Cigna Medicare $185.00 ↑ +170%
Geisinger Medicare $185.00 ↑ +170%
United Healthcare Medicare $188.52 ↑ +176%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $190.29 ↑ +178%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $191.97 ↑ +181%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $205.31 ↑ +200%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $240.21 ↑ +251%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $281.90 ↑ +312%
United Healthcare Commercial $315.59 ↑ +361%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $520.66 ↑ +661%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $584.49 ↑ +755%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $626.71 ↑ +816%

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Liver ds alys 3 bmrk srm alg at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $944.40 $65.78 – $1,259.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $972.60 $63.57 – $1,458.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $68.40 $15.62 – $520.66
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $68.40 $22.80 – $520.66
UPMC East Monroeville $972.60 $66.41 – $1,296.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $972.60 $65.78 – $497.52
UPMC Northwest Seneca $917.40 $155.04 – $497.52
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $972.60 $106.37 – $497.52

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