T4 (thyroxine) free 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

$45.60

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.

$76.00

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.

$8.00 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $66.12 with Wellspan Population Health — 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
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $8.00 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicare $8.93 ↓ -80%
Aetna Commercial $9.02 ↓ -80%
Aetna ACO $9.02 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $9.02 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $9.32 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $9.41 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $9.47 ↓ -79%
Geisinger Medicare $9.47 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Commercial $9.58 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $9.65 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $9.74 ↓ -79%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $10.16 ↓ -78%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $10.40 ↓ -77%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $10.48 ↓ -77%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $10.90 ↓ -76%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $11.65 ↓ -74%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $13.63 ↓ -70%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $14.43 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $14.44 ↓ -68%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $14.44 ↓ -68%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $18.39 ↓ -60%
Cigna Commercial $23.44 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Medicaid $29.92 ↓ -34%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $32.08 ↓ -30%
Geisinger Commercial $49.76 ↑ +9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $51.65 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $51.65 ↑ +13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $51.65 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $53.20 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $58.35 ↑ +28%
CareFirst Commercial $64.60 ↑ +42%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $64.60 ↑ +42%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $66.12 ↑ +45%

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T4 (thyroxine) free at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $121.80 $8.00 – $162.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $49.80 $3.25 – $74.70
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $45.60 $8.00 – $64.60
UPMC Cole Coudersport $64.20 $5.86 – $85.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $45.60 $8.00 – $58.35
UPMC East Monroeville $136.20 $8.00 – $181.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $379.80 $8.00 – $17.44
UPMC Northwest Seneca $42.00 $8.18 – $9.74

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