Fetal shunt placement w/us at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$1,034.40
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.
$1,724.00
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.
$296.24 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $3,482.61 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $296.24 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $300.70 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | Medicare | $308.21 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $312.10 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $314.19 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $320.18 | ↓ -69% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $323.17 | ↓ -69% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $344.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $344.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $417.21 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $922.58 | ↓ -11% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $948.20 | ↓ -8% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,016.56 | ↓ -2% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,120.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,296.45 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $1,465.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,633.00 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $1,802.00 | ↑ +74% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,120.00 | ↑ +105% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2,656.50 | ↑ +157% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2,656.50 | ↑ +157% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2,656.50 | ↑ +157% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3,242.68 | ↑ +213% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $3,482.61 | ↑ +237% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $3,482.61 | ↑ +237% |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Fetal shunt placement w/us at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,034.40 | $160.04 – $1,465.40 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,034.40 | $287.68 – $3,242.68 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,034.40 | $289.24 – $3,242.68 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $4,827.60 | $271.42 – $881.58 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,034.40 | $304.23 – $3,242.68 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,034.40 | $287.11 – $892.40 |