Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer auto screen/manual rescreen/review 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

$110.40

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.

$184.00

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.

$21.40 with Keystone Health Plan vs $283.64 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
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $21.40 ↓ -81%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $21.40 ↓ -81%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $25.89 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $26.34 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $26.74 ↓ -76%
Humana Medicare $27.41 ↓ -75%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $27.52 ↓ -75%
Aetna Medicare $27.75 ↓ -75%
Cigna Medicare $27.94 ↓ -75%
United Healthcare Medicare $28.47 ↓ -74%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $28.74 ↓ -74%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $29.55 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $38.71 ↓ -65%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $40.25 ↓ -64%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $43.04 ↓ -61%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $50.36 ↓ -54%
Aetna ACO $63.02 ↓ -43%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $66.88 ↓ -39%
InterGroup PPO $69.55 ↓ -37%
Aetna Commercial $78.75 ↓ -29%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $80.46 ↓ -27%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $90.95 ↓ -18%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $108.64 ↓ -2%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $154.54 ↑ +40%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $154.54 ↑ +40%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $154.54 ↑ +40%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $283.64 ↑ +157%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $283.64 ↑ +157%

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Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer auto screen/manual rescreen/review at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $102.00 $26.30 – $136.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $78.00 $9.60 – $117.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $64.20 $14.66 – $90.95
UPMC Cole Coudersport $121.80 $17.30 – $162.40
UPMC East Monroeville $78.00 $26.30 – $104.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $78.00 $24.13 – $33.98
UPMC Hanover Hanover $64.20 $26.34 – $42.58
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $78.00 $23.82 – $49.93

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