Cystouretero w/biopsy at UPMC Community Osteopathic

111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786

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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.

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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.

$875.52 with UPMC Work Partners vs $7,348.95 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.

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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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $875.52
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,016.56
Aetna ACO $4,374.00
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $4,577.82
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $4,577.82
Aetna PEBTF ACO $4,829.00
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $4,950.65
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $4,953.82
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $5,025.16
Humana Medicare $5,150.68
Aetna Medicare $5,215.69
Cigna Medicare $5,250.69
United Healthcare Medicare $5,350.71
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $5,400.71
Aetna Commercial $5,681.00
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $7,348.95
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $7,348.95
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $7,348.95
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital

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Cystouretero w/biopsy at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Cole Coudersport $491.40 $227.03 – $1,470.59
Uniontown Hospital Uniontown $2,949.67 $5,196.96 – $12,108.92
UPMC Altoona Altoona not published $836.61 – $5,234.35
UPMC East Monroeville not published $836.61 – $5,331.28
UPMC Hamot Erie not published $836.61 – $7,049.07
UPMC Northwest Seneca not published $836.61 – $5,234.35
UPMC Hanover Hanover not published $875.52 – $7,770.21
UPMC Memorial York not published $875.52 – $7,799.49

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