Removal embedded foreign body vestibule mouth smpl 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

$1,191.00

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.

$1,985.00

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.

$38.73 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $3,185.83 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
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $38.73 ↓ -97%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $38.73 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $39.65 ↓ -97%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $41.54 ↓ -97%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $44.43 ↓ -96%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $51.98 ↓ -96%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $175.58 ↓ -85%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $377.15 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $377.15 ↓ -68%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $401.69 ↓ -66%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $480.37 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $886.69 ↓ -26%
Humana Medicare $895.65 ↓ -25%
Aetna Medicare $934.16 ↓ -22%
Geisinger Medicare $940.43 ↓ -21%
Cigna Medicare $940.43 ↓ -21%
United Healthcare Medicare $958.35 ↓ -20%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $967.30 ↓ -19%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,017.87 ↓ -15%
Aetna ACO $1,127.48 ↓ -5%
Geisinger Commercial $1,299.78 ↑ +9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $1,349.01 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $1,349.01 ↑ +13%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $1,349.01 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,389.50 ↑ +17%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $1,433.04 ↑ +20%
Aetna Commercial $1,445.08 ↑ +21%
Cigna Commercial $1,548.30 ↑ +30%
CareFirst Commercial $1,687.25 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $1,687.25 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $1,726.95 ↑ +45%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $2,971.23 ↑ +149%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $3,185.83 ↑ +167%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
United Healthcare Commercial not published by hospital

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Removal embedded foreign body vestibule mouth smpl at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $505.20 $30.50 – $673.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,191.00 $38.73 – $1,687.25
UPMC Cole Coudersport $140.40 $32.02 – $2,325.85
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,191.00 $38.73 – $1,687.25
UPMC Northwest Seneca $778.20 $33.55 – $938.54
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $472.20 $33.55 – $965.36
UPMC Lititz Lititz $1,191.00 $38.73 – $1,440.78
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $583.80 $33.55 – $983.24

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