Calcium 24 hour urine 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

$30.60

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.

$51.00

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.

$5.97 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $46.59 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $5.97 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $6.06 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $6.21 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $6.24 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $6.29 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $6.33 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $6.45 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $6.51 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $8.00 ↓ -74%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $8.20 ↓ -73%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $8.20 ↓ -73%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $9.92 ↓ -68%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $10.48 ↓ -66%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $10.90 ↓ -64%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $11.65 ↓ -62%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $13.63 ↓ -55%
Aetna ACO $24.15 ↓ -21%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $24.25 ↓ -21%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $25.62 ↓ -16%
InterGroup PPO $26.65 ↓ -13%
Aetna Commercial $30.18 ↓ -1%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $30.83 ↑ +1%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $34.85 ↑ +14%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $35.27 ↑ +15%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $35.27 ↑ +15%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $35.27 ↑ +15%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $46.59 ↑ +52%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $46.59 ↑ +52%

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Calcium 24 hour urine at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $36.60 $5.96 – $48.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $41.40 $2.18 – $62.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $30.60 $5.97 – $43.35
UPMC Cole Coudersport $44.40 $3.92 – $59.20
UPMC East Monroeville $90.60 $5.96 – $120.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $118.20 $5.96 – $11.65
UPMC Northwest Seneca $43.80 $5.47 – $9.20
UPMC Hanover Hanover $30.60 $5.97 – $10.90

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