Drug of abuse screen urine 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

$32.40

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.

$54.00

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.

$10.80 with Capital Blue Cross vs $101.81 with UPMC 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
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $10.80 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $10.80 ↓ -67%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $11.97 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $12.47 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $12.66 ↓ -61%
Humana Medicare $12.98 ↓ -60%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $13.03 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $13.07 ↓ -60%
Aetna Medicare $13.14 ↓ -59%
Cigna Medicare $13.23 ↓ -59%
United Healthcare Medicare $13.48 ↓ -58%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $13.61 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $15.68 ↓ -52%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $16.30 ↓ -50%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $17.44 ↓ -46%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $20.40 ↓ -37%
Aetna ACO $31.81 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $33.75 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $35.10 ↑ +8%
Aetna Commercial $39.74 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $40.61 ↑ +25%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $41.54 ↑ +28%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $41.54 ↑ +28%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $45.90 ↑ +42%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $59.89 ↑ +85%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $59.89 ↑ +85%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $59.89 ↑ +85%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $101.81 ↑ +214%

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Drug of abuse screen urine at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $53.40 $10.39 – $71.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $32.40 $7.40 – $45.90
UPMC East Monroeville $425.40 $10.49 – $567.20
UPMC Hanover Hanover $32.40 $11.97 – $20.16
UPMC Lititz Lititz $32.40 $11.97 – $20.16
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $357.00 $10.49 – $13.86
UPMC Memorial York $32.40 $8.47 – $74.12
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $441.60 $10.39 – $13.86

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