Change of ureter tube/stent 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

$3,457.20

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.

$5,762.00

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.

$150.33 with UPMC Work Partners vs $4,897.70 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $150.33 ↓ -96%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $1,152.40 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $1,152.40 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $1,394.40 ↓ -60%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,482.24 ↓ -57%
Aetna ACO $1,633.00 ↓ -53%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,712.54 ↓ -50%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $1,802.00 ↓ -48%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $1,994.93 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $2,024.95 ↓ -41%
Humana Medicare $2,075.53 ↓ -40%
Aetna Medicare $2,101.73 ↓ -39%
Cigna Medicare $2,115.83 ↓ -39%
Aetna Commercial $2,120.00 ↓ -39%
United Healthcare Medicare $2,156.14 ↓ -38%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $2,176.29 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $2,249.82 ↓ -35%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $2,249.82 ↓ -35%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $3,169.10 ↓ -8%
InterGroup PPO $3,745.30 ↑ +8%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $4,217.85 ↑ +22%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $4,217.85 ↑ +22%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $4,217.85 ↑ +22%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $4,333.02 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $4,897.70 ↑ +42%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Change of ureter tube/stent at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $3,457.20 $148.72 – $4,897.70
UPMC Hanover Hanover $3,457.20 $150.33 – $3,131.10
UPMC Lititz Lititz $3,457.20 $148.72 – $3,148.02
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $2,680.20 $155.03 – $2,148.31
UPMC Memorial York $3,457.20 $150.33 – $3,142.91
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $2,270.40 $151.47 – $2,148.31
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $4,240.80 $151.47 – $2,148.31
UPMC Somerset Somerset $3,457.20 $142.12 – $2,109.06

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