Consultation/report referred slides prepared elsewhere at UPMC Community Osteopathic

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$163.20

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.

$272.00

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.

$26.20 with Keystone Health Plan vs $309.95 with Capital Blue Cross — 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
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $26.20 ↓ -84%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $26.20 ↓ -84%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $31.70 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $38.22 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $38.80 ↓ -76%
Humana Medicare $39.77 ↓ -76%
Aetna Medicare $40.27 ↓ -75%
Cigna Medicare $40.54 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Medicare $41.31 ↓ -75%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $41.70 ↓ -74%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $49.12 ↓ -70%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $72.05 ↓ -56%
Aetna ACO $77.16 ↓ -53%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $81.88 ↓ -50%
InterGroup PPO $85.15 ↓ -48%
Aetna Commercial $96.42 ↓ -41%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $98.51 ↓ -40%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $111.35 ↓ -32%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $137.29 ↓ -16%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $162.74 ↓ -0%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $239.57 ↑ +47%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $239.57 ↑ +47%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $309.95 ↑ +90%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $309.95 ↑ +90%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $309.95 ↑ +90%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Consultation/report referred slides prepared elsewhere at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $298.20 $38.16 – $397.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $78.60 $17.95 – $139.15
UPMC Cole Coudersport $336.60 $53.00 – $448.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $342.00 $12.71 – $137.12
UPMC Hanover Hanover $78.60 $37.12 – $162.74
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $204.00 $33.50 – $131.19
UPMC Kane Kane $210.00 $12.71 – $407.30
UPMC Lititz Lititz $78.60 $37.32 – $162.74

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