Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast 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

$1,378.20

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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.

$2,297.00

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.

$294.41 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.

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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

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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $294.41 ↓ -79%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $347.79 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $353.02 ↓ -74%
Humana Medicare $361.84 ↓ -74%
Aetna Medicare $366.41 ↓ -73%
Cigna Medicare $368.87 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Medicare $375.89 ↓ -73%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $379.40 ↓ -72%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $459.40 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $459.40 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $555.87 ↓ -60%
Aetna ACO $1,127.83 ↓ -18%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $1,196.74 ↓ -13%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1,263.35 ↓ -8%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,276.30 ↓ -7%
Aetna Commercial $1,408.06 ↑ +2%
InterGroup PPO $1,493.05 ↑ +8%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $1,727.34 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $1,952.45 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $1,971.34 ↑ +43%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $1,971.34 ↑ +43%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $2,996.70 ↑ +117%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $2,996.70 ↑ +117%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $2,996.70 ↑ +117%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $387.00 $315.29 – $1,276.30
UPMC Bedford Everett $556.80 $122.85 – $835.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $1,378.20 $187.90 – $1,952.45
UPMC East Monroeville $487.20 $267.96 – $649.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $489.00 $272.00 – $566.90
UPMC Northwest Seneca $691.20 $308.78 – $367.72
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,378.20 $294.41 – $1,276.30
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $1,753.20 $304.83 – $638.91

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