Change of windpipe airway 31502 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

$463.80

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What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

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$773.00

Gross charge

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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.

$124.62 with UPMC Work Partners vs $2,120.00 with Aetna — same scan, same building. Share

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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

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 $124.62 ↓ -73%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $154.60 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $154.60 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $166.08 ↓ -64%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $187.07 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $226.15 ↓ -51%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $229.55 ↓ -51%
Humana Medicare $235.28 ↓ -49%
Aetna Medicare $238.25 ↓ -49%
Cigna Medicare $239.85 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare Medicare $244.42 ↓ -47%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $246.70 ↓ -47%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $282.41 ↓ -39%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $383.64 ↓ -17%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $383.64 ↓ -17%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $425.15 ↓ -8%
InterGroup PPO $502.45 ↑ +8%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $581.30 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $657.05 ↑ +42%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $1,471.05 ↑ +217%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $1,471.05 ↑ +217%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $1,471.05 ↑ +217%
Aetna ACO $1,633.00 ↑ +252%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $1,802.00 ↑ +289%
Aetna Commercial $2,120.00 ↑ +357%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Change of windpipe airway 31502 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $454.20 $92.94 – $605.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $463.80 $105.90 – $657.05
UPMC Cole Coudersport $220.20 $10.53 – $2,325.85
UPMC East Monroeville $319.20 $93.83 – $425.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $380.40 $92.94 – $322.01
UPMC Northwest Seneca $580.20 $119.08 – $239.10
UPMC Hanover Hanover $463.80 $124.62 – $354.94
UPMC Jameson New Castle $242.40 $94.58 – $298.88

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