Carbon dioxide 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

$24.60

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.

$41.00

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.

$4.83 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $36.63 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 $4.83 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $4.90 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $5.03 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.04 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $5.09 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $5.12 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $5.22 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $5.27 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $6.72 ↓ -73%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $8.20 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $8.20 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $8.80 ↓ -64%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $9.15 ↓ -63%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $9.79 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $9.92 ↓ -60%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $11.45 ↓ -53%
Aetna ACO $24.15 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $25.62 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $26.65 ↑ +8%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $28.58 ↑ +16%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $28.58 ↑ +16%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $28.58 ↑ +16%
Aetna Commercial $30.18 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $30.83 ↑ +25%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $33.21 ↑ +35%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $34.85 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $36.63 ↑ +49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $36.63 ↑ +49%

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Carbon dioxide at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $40.80 $4.82 – $54.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $30.00 $1.76 – $45.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $24.60 $4.83 – $34.85
UPMC Cole Coudersport $37.80 $3.17 – $50.40
UPMC East Monroeville $70.80 $4.82 – $94.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $42.00 $4.82 – $9.34
UPMC Northwest Seneca $36.00 $4.43 – $7.73
UPMC Hanover Hanover $24.60 $4.83 – $9.15

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