Bone marrow biopsyneedle/trocar 38221 at UPMC Community Osteopathic

111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$2,080.80

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.

$3,468.00

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.

$91.46 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,947.80 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $91.46 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $94.26 ↓ -95%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $95.09 ↓ -95%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $101.70 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $118.99 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $423.36 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $434.05 ↓ -79%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $693.60 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $693.60 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $839.26 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $1,461.51 ↓ -30%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $1,461.51 ↓ -30%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $1,577.86 ↓ -24%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $1,601.61 ↓ -23%
Aetna ACO $1,633.00 ↓ -22%
Humana Medicare $1,641.61 ↓ -21%
Aetna Medicare $1,662.33 ↓ -20%
Cigna Medicare $1,673.49 ↓ -20%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,705.37 ↓ -18%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,721.30 ↓ -17%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $1,802.00 ↓ -13%
Aetna Commercial $2,120.00 ↑ +2%
InterGroup PPO $2,254.20 ↑ +8%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $2,607.94 ↑ +25%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $2,656.50 ↑ +28%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $2,656.50 ↑ +28%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $2,656.50 ↑ +28%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $2,947.80 ↑ +42%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Bone marrow biopsyneedle/trocar 38221 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $969.00 $69.82 – $1,292.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $2,080.80 $88.67 – $2,947.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $207.00 $42.41 – $771.51
UPMC East Monroeville $1,484.40 $76.80 – $1,979.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $2,017.80 $76.80 – $2,246.66
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,237.20 $76.80 – $1,621.93
UPMC Hanover Hanover $2,080.80 $88.67 – $2,476.51
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $924.60 $76.80 – $1,668.28

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