Change nephroureteral cath 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

$4,905.00

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.

$8,175.00

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.

$1,016.56 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $6,948.75 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,016.56 ↓ -79%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,235.77 ↓ -75%
Aetna ACO $1,633.00 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $1,635.00 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $1,635.00 ↓ -67%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $1,802.00 ↓ -63%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $1,978.35 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $1,994.93 ↓ -59%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $2,024.95 ↓ -59%
Humana Medicare $2,075.53 ↓ -58%
Aetna Medicare $2,101.73 ↓ -57%
Cigna Medicare $2,115.83 ↓ -57%
Aetna Commercial $2,120.00 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare Medicare $2,156.14 ↓ -56%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $2,176.29 ↓ -56%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $3,769.98 ↓ -23%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $4,217.85 ↓ -14%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $4,217.85 ↓ -14%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $4,217.85 ↓ -14%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $4,496.25 ↓ -8%
InterGroup PPO $5,313.75 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $5,398.97 ↑ +10%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $5,398.97 ↑ +10%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $6,147.60 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $6,948.75 ↑ +42%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Change nephroureteral cath at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $2,823.00 $1,180.85 – $3,764.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $4,905.00 $1,016.56 – $6,948.75
UPMC East Monroeville $5,475.60 $1,180.85 – $7,300.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $7,311.00 $1,180.85 – $2,840.52
UPMC Hanover Hanover $4,905.00 $1,016.56 – $3,769.98
UPMC Lititz Lititz $4,905.00 $1,016.56 – $3,769.98
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $6,469.20 $1,180.85 – $2,148.31
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $5,810.40 $1,180.85 – $2,148.31

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