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

$1,325.40

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.

$2,209.00

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.

$419.71 with Capital Blue Cross vs $2,080.03 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 $419.71 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $419.71 ↓ -68%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $464.24 ↓ -65%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $534.58 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $578.92 ↓ -56%
Humana Medicare $584.77 ↓ -56%
Aetna Medicare $609.92 ↓ -54%
Cigna Medicare $614.01 ↓ -54%
Geisinger Medicare $614.01 ↓ -54%
United Healthcare Medicare $625.70 ↓ -53%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $631.55 ↓ -52%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $935.63 ↓ -29%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1,214.95 ↓ -8%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $1,214.95 ↓ -8%
Aetna ACO $1,254.71 ↓ -5%
Geisinger Commercial $1,446.45 ↑ +9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $1,501.24 ↑ +13%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $1,501.24 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $1,501.24 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,546.30 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,546.30 ↑ +17%
Aetna Commercial $1,608.15 ↑ +21%
CareFirst Commercial $1,877.65 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $1,877.65 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $1,921.83 ↑ +45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $1,939.92 ↑ +46%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $2,080.03 ↑ +57%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital —
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime 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 $1,325.40 $302.63 – $1,877.65
UPMC Lititz Lititz $1,325.40 $464.24 – $940.69

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