Cell count body fluid 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

$33.00

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.

$55.00

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.

$4.50 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $46.75 with Wellspan Population Health — 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
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $4.50 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $4.67 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $4.74 ↓ -86%
Humana Medicare $4.86 ↓ -85%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4.88 ↓ -85%
Aetna Medicare $4.92 ↓ -85%
Cigna Medicare $4.96 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Medicare $5.05 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $5.10 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $5.89 ↓ -82%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $6.13 ↓ -81%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $6.55 ↓ -80%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $7.67 ↓ -77%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $11.00 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $11.00 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $13.31 ↓ -60%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $27.62 ↓ -16%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $27.62 ↓ -16%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $27.62 ↓ -16%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $31.64 ↓ -4%
Aetna ACO $32.40 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $34.38 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $35.75 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $36.56 ↑ +11%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $36.56 ↑ +11%
Aetna Commercial $40.48 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $41.36 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $46.75 ↑ +42%

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Cell count body fluid at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $55.20 $4.50 – $73.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $33.00 $1.70 – $49.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $33.00 $4.50 – $46.75
UPMC Cole Coudersport $37.80 $3.07 – $50.40
UPMC East Monroeville $70.80 $4.50 – $94.40
UPMC Hanover Hanover $33.00 $4.50 – $7.55
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $37.20 $4.23 – $8.86
UPMC Jameson New Castle $56.40 $4.66 – $9.31

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