Chloride 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

$23.40

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.

$39.00

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.

$4.55 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $35.82 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 $4.55 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $4.62 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $4.74 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4.76 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $4.80 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $4.83 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $4.92 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4.97 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $6.34 ↓ -73%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $6.60 ↓ -72%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $6.60 ↓ -72%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $7.99 ↓ -66%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $8.31 ↓ -64%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $8.64 ↓ -63%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $9.23 ↓ -61%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $10.80 ↓ -54%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $17.75 ↓ -24%
Aetna ACO $19.44 ↓ -17%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $20.62 ↓ -12%
InterGroup PPO $21.45 ↓ -8%
Aetna Commercial $24.29 ↑ +4%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $24.82 ↑ +6%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $26.82 ↑ +15%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $26.82 ↑ +15%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $26.82 ↑ +15%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $28.05 ↑ +20%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $35.82 ↑ +53%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $35.82 ↑ +53%

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Chloride at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $73.80 $4.55 – $98.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $33.00 $1.66 – $49.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $23.40 $4.55 – $33.15
UPMC Cole Coudersport $36.60 $2.99 – $48.80
UPMC East Monroeville $68.40 $4.55 – $91.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $68.40 $4.55 – $8.96
UPMC Northwest Seneca $34.80 $4.17 – $7.29
UPMC Hanover Hanover $23.40 $4.55 – $8.64

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