Echo stress at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$1,737.60
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.
$2,896.00
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.
$60.91 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,996.70 with Keystone 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.
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 | $60.91 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $97.16 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $104.19 | ↓ -94% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $109.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $109.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $111.43 | ↓ -94% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $130.37 | ↓ -92% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $132.13 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | ACO | $268.09 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $284.47 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $334.70 | ↓ -81% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $354.90 | ↓ -80% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $410.59 | ↓ -76% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $464.10 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $515.20 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $533.96 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $541.99 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare | $555.53 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $562.54 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $566.32 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $577.10 | ↓ -67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $582.50 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $981.22 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,024.72 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $1,024.72 | ↓ -41% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2,996.70 | ↑ +72% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2,996.70 | ↑ +72% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2,996.70 | ↑ +72% |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Echo stress at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,335.00 | $46.50 – $1,780.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $966.00 | $80.33 – $1,449.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,737.60 | $60.91 – $2,461.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $696.00 | $84.15 – $957.76 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $626.40 | $84.15 – $937.61 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,737.60 | $60.91 – $981.22 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,782.80 | $84.15 – $937.61 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $561.60 | $84.15 – $1,031.50 |