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Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$788.40
Cash price 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.
$1,314.00
Gross charge 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.
$156.34 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,003.92 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $156.34 | ↓ -80% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $162.80 | ↓ -79% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $162.80 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $187.78 | ↓ -76% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $196.99 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $201.39 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $215.37 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $235.40 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $238.95 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare | $244.91 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $248.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $249.67 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $251.98 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $254.42 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $256.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | ACO | $399.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $424.09 | ↓ -46% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $449.90 | ↓ -43% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $449.90 | ↓ -43% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $472.36 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $498.98 | ↓ -37% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $504.34 | ↓ -36% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $529.10 | ↓ -33% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $588.29 | ↓ -25% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $612.13 | ↓ -22% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $691.90 | ↓ -12% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $1,003.92 | ↑ +27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,003.92 | ↑ +27% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $831.00 | $162.09 – $1,108.00 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,764.20 | $162.09 – $3,915.95 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,007.40 | $94.90 – $1,175.30 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $788.40 | $156.34 – $1,116.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $788.40 | $156.34 – $1,116.90 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,053.00 | $119.34 – $1,404.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $499.20 | $83.15 – $748.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $481.20 | $155.25 – $641.60 |