Cath groshong MRI 8fr plstc port at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$1,597.20
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.
$2,662.00
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.
$262.40 with Capital Blue Cross vs $2,186.07 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.
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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| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $262.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $262.40 | ↓ -84% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $317.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $329.31 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | ACO | $401.47 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $427.71 | ↓ -73% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $432.96 | ↓ -73% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $437.29 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $498.56 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $502.50 | ↓ -69% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $725.14 | ↓ -55% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $725.14 | ↓ -55% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $761.35 | ↓ -52% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $852.80 | ↓ -47% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $986.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $1,115.20 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $1,944.73 | ↑ +22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,944.73 | ↑ +22% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,186.07 | ↑ +37% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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Cath groshong MRI 8fr plstc port at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,029.80 | $148.96 – $2,186.07 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,371.80 | $251.94 – $2,186.07 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $450.00 | $142.50 – $600.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,170.40 | $213.56 – $2,186.07 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,746.20 | $369.46 – $369.46 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,380.80 | $958.88 – $2,645.34 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,491.20 | $941.59 – $2,186.07 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $1,778.40 | $375.97 – $2,186.07 |