Cell count w differential 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

$40.80

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.

$68.00

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.

$5.54 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $59.89 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 $5.54 ↓ -86%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $5.63 ↓ -86%
Humana Medicare $5.77 ↓ -86%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.80 ↓ -86%
Aetna Medicare $5.84 ↓ -86%
Cigna Medicare $5.88 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare $5.99 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $6.05 ↓ -85%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $7.00 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $9.17 ↓ -78%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $9.53 ↓ -77%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.20 ↓ -75%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $11.93 ↓ -71%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $13.60 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $13.60 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $16.46 ↓ -60%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $32.19 ↓ -21%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $32.19 ↓ -21%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $32.19 ↓ -21%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $32.42 ↓ -21%
Aetna ACO $40.05 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $42.50 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $44.20 ↑ +8%
Aetna Commercial $50.05 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $51.14 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $57.80 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $59.89 ↑ +47%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $59.89 ↑ +47%

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Cell count w differential body fluid at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $121.80 $5.54 – $162.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $41.40 $2.02 – $62.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $40.80 $5.54 – $57.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $55.80 $3.64 – $74.40
UPMC East Monroeville $115.80 $5.54 – $154.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $179.40 $5.54 – $14.98
UPMC Northwest Seneca $58.80 $5.08 – $8.05
UPMC Hanover Hanover $40.80 $5.54 – $9.53

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