Brachytx isodose complex 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

$942.60

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.

$1,571.00

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.

$197.14 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,039.13 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 $197.14 ↓ -79%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $314.20 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $314.20 ↓ -67%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $340.97 ↓ -64%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $356.50 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $361.86 ↓ -62%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $365.67 ↓ -61%
Humana Medicare $370.90 ↓ -61%
Aetna Medicare $375.58 ↓ -60%
Cigna Medicare $378.11 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $380.18 ↓ -60%
United Healthcare Medicare $385.31 ↓ -59%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $388.91 ↓ -59%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $391.07 ↓ -59%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $457.54 ↓ -51%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $478.72 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $558.99 ↓ -41%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $558.99 ↓ -41%
Aetna ACO $925.32 ↓ -2%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $966.13 ↑ +2%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $966.13 ↑ +2%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $966.13 ↑ +2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $981.88 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $1,021.15 ↑ +8%
Aetna Commercial $1,156.26 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $1,181.39 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $1,335.35 ↑ +42%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2,039.13 ↑ +116%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital —

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Brachytx isodose complex at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $942.60 $197.14 – $1,335.35
UPMC Lititz Lititz $942.60 $197.14 – $562.56
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $3,773.40 $128.35 – $457.54
UPMC Memorial York $942.60 $103.63 – $1,229.81
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $1,937.40 $127.14 – $514.35
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,930.40 $128.35 – $531.91
UPMC Somerset Somerset $942.60 $125.86 – $457.44
UPMC St. Margaret Pittsburgh $984.60 $128.35 – $457.44

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