Screening prostate cancer PSA 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

$97.80

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.

$163.00

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.

$15.43 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $144.59 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $15.43 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $19.12 ↓ -80%
Aetna ACO $19.31 ↓ -80%
Aetna Commercial $19.31 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $19.31 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $20.14 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $20.28 ↓ -79%
Geisinger Medicare $20.28 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $20.66 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $20.85 ↓ -79%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $30.90 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $30.97 ↓ -68%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $30.97 ↓ -68%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $39.45 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $64.06 ↓ -34%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $68.69 ↓ -30%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $89.65 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $89.65 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Commercial $106.73 ↑ +9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $110.77 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $110.77 ↑ +13%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $110.77 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $114.10 ↑ +17%
Cigna Commercial $127.14 ↑ +30%
CareFirst Commercial $138.55 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $138.55 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $141.81 ↑ +45%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $144.59 ↑ +48%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Screening prostate cancer PSA at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $96.00 $19.69 – $128.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $96.00 $6.97 – $144.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $97.80 $10.62 – $138.55
UPMC Cole Coudersport $129.60 $12.20 – $35.20
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $97.80 $15.43 – $144.59
UPMC East Monroeville $96.00 $19.36 – $128.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $96.00 $19.31 – $48.83
UPMC Northwest Seneca $96.00 $17.51 – $20.85

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