Place right device/marker pros at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
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Cash price 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.
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Gross charge 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.
$228.73 with UPMC Work Partners vs $4,649.35 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $228.73 | — |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,016.56 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $1,294.03 | — |
| Humana | Medicare | $1,307.10 | — |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,363.31 | — |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $1,372.45 | — |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1,372.45 | — |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,398.60 | — |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,411.67 | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,430.69 | — |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $2,091.36 | — |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,397.00 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $4,336.17 | — |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $4,649.35 | — |
| Aetna | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | ACO | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,887.60 | $228.73 – $2,674.10 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,347.00 | $218.56 – $1,434.92 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,887.60 | $208.19 – $2,099.23 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,887.60 | $218.56 – $1,408.70 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $1,591.00 | $205.80 – $2,786.44 |
| WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital | Lewisburg | $4,212.13 | $102.83 – $2,616.83 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | not published | $228.73 – $2,094.24 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | not published | $218.56 – $1,408.83 |