Echo guide for artery repair at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$539.40
Cash price 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.
$899.00
Gross charge 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.
$115.61 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,570.08 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $115.61 | ↓ -79% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $179.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $179.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $217.56 | ↓ -60% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $240.59 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $258.02 | ↓ -52% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $275.94 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $303.26 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $307.82 | ↓ -43% |
| Humana | Medicare | $315.51 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $319.49 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $321.64 | ↓ -40% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $322.84 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $327.76 | ↓ -39% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $330.83 | ↓ -39% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $453.25 | ↓ -16% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $453.25 | ↓ -16% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $453.25 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | ACO | $529.51 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $561.88 | ↑ +4% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $584.35 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $661.66 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $676.05 | ↑ +25% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $734.40 | ↑ +36% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $746.85 | ↑ +38% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $764.15 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,118.04 | ↑ +107% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $1,570.08 | ↑ +191% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,570.08 | ↑ +191% |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Echo guide for artery repair at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $775.80 | $88.25 – $1,034.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $539.40 | $115.61 – $764.15 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $939.00 | $208.38 – $772.43 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $539.40 | $115.61 – $746.85 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $676.80 | $208.38 – $775.20 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $539.40 | $115.61 – $734.40 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,748.40 | $208.38 – $772.43 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $539.40 | $115.61 – $746.85 |