Rapid desensitization at UPMC Hanover
300 Highland Avenue, Hanover, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1730158981
$689.40
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.
$1,149.00
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.
$10.79 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $1,355.93 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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $10.79 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $10.79 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $11.05 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $11.13 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $11.58 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $12.38 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $14.49 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $138.58 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $163.18 | ↓ -76% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $218.31 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $218.31 | ↓ -68% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $278.06 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare | $377.39 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Medicare | $381.20 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $397.59 | ↓ -42% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $400.26 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $400.26 | ↓ -42% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $407.88 | ↓ -41% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $411.70 | ↓ -40% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $609.92 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | ACO | $652.63 | ↓ -5% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $752.37 | ↑ +9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $780.86 | ↑ +13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $780.86 | ↑ +13% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $780.86 | ↑ +13% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $804.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $836.47 | ↑ +21% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $845.66 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $896.22 | ↑ +30% |
| CareFirst | Commercial | $976.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $976.65 | ↑ +42% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $999.63 | ↑ +45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicaid | $1,264.59 | ↑ +83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,355.93 | ↑ +97% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Rapid desensitization at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $689.40 | $10.79 – $976.65 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $689.40 | $10.79 – $976.65 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $198.00 | $9.35 – $410.88 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $689.40 | $9.35 – $380.44 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $513.50 | $9.35 – $899.32 |