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Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$1,815.60
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.
$3,026.00
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.
$95.25 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $3,135.30 with Keystone Health Plan — 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 |
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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $95.25 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $102.15 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $109.25 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $127.81 | ↓ -93% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $258.80 | ↓ -86% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $258.80 | ↓ -86% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $313.15 | ↓ -83% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $332.16 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $650.01 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $659.80 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Medicare | $676.28 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $684.81 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $689.41 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $702.54 | ↓ -61% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $709.11 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $762.42 | ↓ -58% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $841.10 | ↓ -54% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $973.09 | ↓ -46% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $1,099.90 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,633.00 | ↓ -10% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,715.17 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $1,802.00 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,120.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $2,249.82 | ↑ +24% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,249.82 | ↑ +24% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $3,135.30 | ↑ +73% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $3,135.30 | ↑ +73% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $3,135.30 | ↑ +73% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $2,580.60 | $82.50 – $3,655.85 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,213.40 | $82.50 – $2,951.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,752.20 | $82.50 – $3,210.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,815.60 | $95.25 – $2,572.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $400.80 | $78.75 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,815.60 | $95.25 – $2,632.62 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $1,731.00 | $82.50 – $2,308.00 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,815.60 | $95.25 – $2,572.10 |