Explore parathyroid glands 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

$1,307.40

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.

$2,179.00

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.

$189.60 with Capital Blue Cross vs $11,127.90 with Capital Blue Cross — 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 $189.60 ↓ -85%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $189.60 ↓ -85%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $229.42 ↓ -82%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $521.40 ↓ -60%
InterGroup PPO $616.20 ↓ -53%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $712.90 ↓ -45%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $805.80 ↓ -38%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,016.56 ↓ -22%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $3,116.34 ↑ +138%
Aetna ACO $5,180.00 ↑ +296%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $5,718.00 ↑ +337%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $5,760.93 ↑ +341%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $5,791.97 ↑ +343%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $5,847.63 ↑ +347%
Humana Medicare $5,993.69 ↑ +358%
Aetna Medicare $6,069.34 ↑ +364%
Cigna Medicare $6,110.08 ↑ +367%
United Healthcare Medicare $6,226.46 ↑ +376%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $6,284.65 ↑ +381%
Aetna Commercial $6,727.00 ↑ +415%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $7,153.27 ↑ +447%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $7,153.27 ↑ +447%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $11,127.90 ↑ +751%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $11,127.90 ↑ +751%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $11,127.90 ↑ +751%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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