Ghs removal intranasal foreign body 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

$328.80

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.

$548.00

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.

$28.57 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $1,016.56 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families — 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
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $28.57 ↓ -91%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $30.64 ↓ -91%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $32.77 ↓ -90%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $38.34 ↓ -88%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $109.60 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $109.60 ↓ -67%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $125.53 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $127.42 ↓ -61%
Humana Medicare $130.60 ↓ -60%
Aetna Medicare $132.25 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $132.62 ↓ -60%
Cigna Medicare $133.14 ↓ -60%
United Healthcare Medicare $135.68 ↓ -59%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $136.94 ↓ -58%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $145.71 ↓ -56%
Aetna ACO $269.07 ↓ -18%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $283.42 ↓ -14%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $285.51 ↓ -13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $316.00 ↓ -4%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $316.00 ↓ -4%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $318.00 ↓ -3%
Aetna Commercial $335.92 ↑ +2%
InterGroup PPO $356.20 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $383.64 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $383.64 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $412.10 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $465.80 ↑ +42%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,016.56 ↑ +209%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital

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Ghs removal intranasal foreign body at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $408.60 $22.50 – $544.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $210.00 $23.62 – $315.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $328.80 $28.57 – $1,016.56
UPMC Cole Coudersport $657.60 $23.62 – $135.17
UPMC East Monroeville $388.80 $24.75 – $518.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $382.20 $24.75 – $178.73
UPMC Northwest Seneca $276.00 $24.75 – $139.23
UPMC Hanover Hanover $328.80 $28.57 – $1,016.56

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