Coombs direct 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

$75.00

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.

$125.00

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.

$5.34 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $68.00 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $5.34 ↓ -93%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $5.42 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare $5.55 ↓ -93%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $5.57 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $5.62 ↓ -93%
Cigna Medicare $5.66 ↓ -92%
United Healthcare Medicare $5.77 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $5.82 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $7.43 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $9.73 ↓ -87%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $10.12 ↓ -87%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.82 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $12.66 ↓ -83%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $16.00 ↓ -79%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $16.00 ↓ -79%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $19.36 ↓ -74%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $20.10 ↓ -73%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $31.39 ↓ -58%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $31.39 ↓ -58%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $31.39 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $41.46 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $41.46 ↓ -45%
Aetna ACO $47.12 ↓ -37%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $50.00 ↓ -33%
InterGroup PPO $52.00 ↓ -31%
Aetna Commercial $58.88 ↓ -21%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $60.16 ↓ -20%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $68.00 ↓ -9%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Coombs direct at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $46.80 $5.32 – $62.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $41.40 $1.94 – $62.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $48.00 $5.34 – $68.00
UPMC Cole Coudersport $41.40 $3.50 – $55.20
UPMC East Monroeville $80.40 $5.32 – $107.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $130.80 $5.32 – $49.63
UPMC Northwest Seneca $37.20 $4.89 – $8.54
UPMC Hanover Hanover $48.00 $5.34 – $10.12

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