Emg thor paraspinal without t1/t2 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

$543.60

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.

$906.00

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.

$10.20 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $770.10 with Wellspan Population Health — 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $10.20 ↓ -98%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $27.67 ↓ -95%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $29.68 ↓ -95%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $31.74 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $37.13 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $117.66 ↓ -78%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $181.20 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $181.20 ↓ -67%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $184.12 ↓ -66%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $219.25 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $259.99 ↓ -52%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $259.99 ↓ -52%
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 ↓ -41%
United Healthcare Medicare $327.76 ↓ -40%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $330.83 ↓ -39%
Aetna ACO $444.85 ↓ -18%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $472.03 ↓ -13%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $500.75 ↓ -8%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $500.75 ↓ -8%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $525.75 ↓ -3%
Aetna Commercial $555.38 ↑ +2%
InterGroup PPO $588.90 ↑ +8%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $681.31 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $770.10 ↑ +42%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Emg thor paraspinal without t1/t2 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $543.60 $10.20 – $770.10
UPMC Cole Coudersport $54.00 $10.53 – $168.30
UPMC Northwest Seneca $152.40 $23.97 – $311.72
UPMC Hanover Hanover $543.60 $10.20 – $475.97
UPMC Lititz Lititz $543.60 $10.20 – $478.54
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $122.40 $23.97 – $320.63
UPMC Memorial York $543.60 $10.20 – $477.76
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $152.40 $23.97 – $326.57

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