Creatine kinase 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

$33.00

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.

$55.00

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.

$6.44 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $50.68 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 $6.44 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $6.54 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $6.71 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $6.74 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $6.79 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $6.84 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $6.97 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $7.03 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $7.19 ↓ -78%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $9.42 ↓ -71%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $9.79 ↓ -70%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $9.80 ↓ -70%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $9.80 ↓ -70%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $10.47 ↓ -68%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $11.86 ↓ -64%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $12.25 ↓ -63%
Aetna ACO $28.86 ↓ -13%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $30.62 ↓ -7%
InterGroup PPO $31.85 ↓ -3%
Aetna Commercial $36.06 ↑ +9%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $36.85 ↑ +12%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $38.07 ↑ +15%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $38.07 ↑ +15%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $38.07 ↑ +15%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $41.65 ↑ +26%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $42.73 ↑ +29%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $50.68 ↑ +54%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $50.68 ↑ +54%

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Creatine kinase at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $103.20 $6.44 – $137.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $41.40 $2.35 – $62.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $33.00 $6.44 – $46.75
UPMC Cole Coudersport $48.00 $4.23 – $64.00
UPMC East Monroeville $97.20 $6.44 – $129.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $211.80 $6.44 – $12.68
UPMC Northwest Seneca $40.80 $5.90 – $8.27
UPMC Hanover Hanover $33.00 $6.44 – $10.42

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