Cytopath smear oth prep screen & interp 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

$54.60

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.

$91.00

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.

$11.53 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $108.65 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $11.53 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $16.00 ↓ -71%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $18.20 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $18.20 ↓ -67%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $21.79 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $22.02 ↓ -60%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $23.31 ↓ -57%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $23.85 ↓ -56%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $24.21 ↓ -56%
Humana Medicare $24.81 ↓ -55%
Aetna Medicare $25.13 ↓ -54%
Cigna Medicare $25.29 ↓ -54%
United Healthcare Medicare $25.78 ↓ -53%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $26.02 ↓ -52%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $27.27 ↓ -50%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $41.83 ↓ -23%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $47.93 ↓ -12%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $47.93 ↓ -12%
Aetna ACO $53.60 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $56.88 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $59.15 ↑ +8%
Aetna Commercial $66.98 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $68.43 ↑ +25%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $74.63 ↑ +37%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $77.35 ↑ +42%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $108.65 ↑ +99%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $108.65 ↑ +99%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $108.65 ↑ +99%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Cytopath smear oth prep screen & interp at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $54.60 $11.53 – $77.35
UPMC Cole Coudersport $125.40 $16.80 – $167.20
UPMC Hanover Hanover $54.60 $11.53 – $74.63
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $49.20 $11.65 – $71.31
UPMC Kane Kane $219.60 $12.71 – $211.44
UPMC Lititz Lititz $54.60 $11.53 – $73.97
UPMC Memorial York $54.60 $9.77 – $134.47
UPMC Muncy Muncy $100.20 $11.26 – $78.52

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