Ghs change cysto/gastrost at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$824.40
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.
$1,374.00
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.
$39.50 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $2,120.00 with Aetna — 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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $39.50 | ↓ -95% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $40.74 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $42.36 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $45.30 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $53.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $236.85 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $240.41 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | Medicare | $246.42 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $249.53 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $251.20 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $255.99 | ↓ -69% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $258.38 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $272.53 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $274.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $274.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $332.51 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $541.93 | ↓ -34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $541.93 | ↓ -34% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $642.04 | ↓ -22% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $893.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,033.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $1,167.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,471.05 | ↑ +78% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,471.05 | ↑ +78% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,471.05 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,633.00 | ↑ +98% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $1,802.00 | ↑ +119% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,120.00 | ↑ +157% |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ghs change cysto/gastrost at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,275.20 | $31.10 – $3,033.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,214.40 | $32.66 – $1,821.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $824.40 | $39.50 – $1,167.90 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $769.80 | $27.17 – $771.51 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,281.20 | $34.21 – $3,041.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,313.60 | $34.21 – $337.24 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,156.80 | $34.21 – $260.42 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $824.40 | $39.50 – $371.74 |