Low cost skin substitute app 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

$4,443.00

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.

$7,405.00

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.

$1,379.13 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $6,442.35 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 $1,379.13 ↓ -69%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $1,406.95 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $1,406.95 ↓ -68%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $1,729.99 ↓ -61%
Humana Medicare $1,747.46 ↓ -61%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $1,792.01 ↓ -60%
Aetna Medicare $1,822.60 ↓ -59%
Geisinger Medicare $1,834.83 ↓ -59%
Cigna Medicare $1,834.83 ↓ -59%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,869.78 ↓ -58%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,887.26 ↓ -58%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $2,795.94 ↓ -37%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $4,072.75 ↓ -8%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $4,072.75 ↓ -8%
Aetna ACO $4,206.04 ↓ -5%
Geisinger Commercial $4,848.79 ↑ +9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $5,032.44 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $5,032.44 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $5,032.44 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $5,183.50 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $5,183.50 ↑ +17%
Aetna Commercial $5,390.84 ↑ +21%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $5,797.02 ↑ +30%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $6,215.72 ↑ +40%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $6,294.25 ↑ +42%
CareFirst Commercial $6,294.25 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $6,442.35 ↑ +45%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —
Tricare East Region not published by hospital —

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Low cost skin substitute app at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $4,443.00 $962.43 – $6,294.25
UPMC Lititz Lititz $4,443.00 $1,379.13 – $2,811.04
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $2,941.80 $416.28 – $1,918.35

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