Brace wrist classic lft sm 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

$75.00

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.

$125.00

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.

$25.00 with Keystone Health Plan vs $419.75 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
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $25.00 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $25.00 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $30.25 ↓ -60%
Aetna Medicare $31.38 ↓ -58%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $41.25 ↓ -45%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $47.50 ↓ -37%
Aetna ACO $61.38 ↓ -18%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $64.92 ↓ -13%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $65.12 ↓ -13%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $69.09 ↓ -8%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $69.09 ↓ -8%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $72.54 ↓ -3%
Aetna Commercial $76.62 ↑ +2%
InterGroup PPO $81.25 ↑ +8%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $94.00 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $106.25 ↑ +42%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $119.12 ↑ +59%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $296.97 ↑ +296%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $419.75 ↑ +460%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $419.75 ↑ +460%

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Brace wrist classic lft sm at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $132.60 $41.99 – $296.97
UPMC Bedford Everett $223.20 $70.68 – $334.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $75.00 $17.12 – $119.12
UPMC Cole Coudersport $283.80 $89.87 – $378.40
UPMC East Monroeville $51.00 $9.12 – $296.97
UPMC Hamot Erie $167.40 $79.74 – $113.83
UPMC Northwest Seneca $522.60 $113.83 – $359.36
UPMC Hanover Hanover $75.00 $64.92 – $296.97

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