Cidofovir injection at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$118.20
Cash price 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.
$197.00
Gross charge 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.
$29.60 with Capital Blue Cross vs $2,187.55 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $29.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $29.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $35.82 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | ACO | $50.47 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $53.58 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $63.05 | ↓ -47% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $63.33 | ↓ -46% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $96.20 | ↓ -19% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $111.30 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $125.80 | ↑ +6% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $373.87 | ↑ +216% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $540.83 | ↑ +358% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $546.29 | ↑ +362% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $546.29 | ↑ +362% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $546.29 | ↑ +362% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $548.97 | ↑ +364% |
| Humana | Medicare | $562.68 | ↑ +376% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $569.78 | ↑ +382% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $573.60 | ↑ +385% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $584.53 | ↑ +395% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $589.99 | ↑ +399% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $646.02 | ↑ +447% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $646.02 | ↑ +447% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $671.94 | ↑ +468% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,187.55 | ↑ +1751% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $2,187.55 | ↑ +1751% |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Cidofovir injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $118.20 | $20.28 – $874.06 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,428.80 | $344.93 – $985.37 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $118.20 | $540.83 – $874.06 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $118.20 | $540.83 – $874.06 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $118.20 | $373.87 – $1,070.80 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,980.80 | $344.93 – $1,313.80 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $118.20 | $540.83 – $546.29 |