Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer manual screening 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

$115.20

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.

$192.00

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.

$16.00 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $178.64 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
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $16.00 ↓ -86%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $16.20 ↓ -86%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $16.20 ↓ -86%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $19.60 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $20.06 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $20.36 ↓ -82%
Humana Medicare $20.87 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $20.95 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $20.96 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicare $21.13 ↓ -82%
Cigna Medicare $21.27 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Medicare $21.68 ↓ -81%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $21.79 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $21.88 ↓ -81%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $23.31 ↓ -80%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $27.27 ↓ -76%
Aetna ACO $47.71 ↓ -59%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $50.62 ↓ -56%
InterGroup PPO $52.65 ↓ -54%
Aetna Commercial $59.62 ↓ -48%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $60.91 ↓ -47%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $68.85 ↓ -40%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $118.42 ↑ +3%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $118.42 ↑ +3%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $118.42 ↑ +3%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $135.30 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $178.64 ↑ +55%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $178.64 ↑ +55%

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Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer manual screening at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $61.20 $16.00 – $81.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $61.20 $7.31 – $91.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $48.60 $11.10 – $68.85
UPMC East Monroeville $61.20 $16.00 – $81.60
UPMC Northwest Seneca $61.20 $17.60 – $21.88
UPMC Hanover Hanover $48.60 $16.00 – $32.42
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $61.20 $16.00 – $38.02
UPMC Kane Kane $124.20 $17.60 – $87.44

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