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Screening Mammogram 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

$257.40

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.

$429.00

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.

$81.51 with Capital Blue Cross vs $551.43 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 $81.51 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $81.51 ↓ -68%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $98.28 ↓ -62%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $103.82 ↓ -60%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $132.97 ↓ -48%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $132.97 ↓ -48%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $136.11 ↓ -47%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $142.60 ↓ -45%
Aetna Medicare $151.87 ↓ -41%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $152.51 ↓ -41%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $178.43 ↓ -31%
Aetna ACO $243.67 ↓ -5%
Geisinger Commercial $280.91 ↑ +9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $291.55 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $291.55 ↑ +13%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $291.55 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $300.30 ↑ +17%
Aetna Commercial $312.31 ↑ +21%
United Healthcare Commercial $315.74 ↑ +23%
CareFirst Commercial $364.65 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $364.65 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $373.23 ↑ +45%
Cigna Commercial $506.81 ↑ +97%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $551.43 ↑ +114%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Screening Mammogram at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $345.00 $60.95 – $460.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $205.20 $85.50 – $307.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $381.00 $109.94 – $508.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $205.20 $51.30 – $239.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $257.40 $58.77 – $506.81
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $399.60 $38.80 – $551.43
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $205.20 $49.00 – $290.70
UPMC Jameson New Castle $205.20 $62.03 – $300.96

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