Giardia ag if 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

$75.60

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.

$126.00

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.

$12.31 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $118.15 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.

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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 $12.31 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $13.47 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $13.68 ↓ -82%
Humana Medicare $14.02 ↓ -81%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $14.08 ↓ -81%
Aetna Medicare $14.20 ↓ -81%
Cigna Medicare $14.29 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare $14.56 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $14.70 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $16.13 ↓ -79%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $16.77 ↓ -78%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $17.93 ↓ -76%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $20.98 ↓ -72%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $25.20 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $25.20 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $30.49 ↓ -60%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $38.08 ↓ -50%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $64.38 ↓ -15%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $64.38 ↓ -15%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $64.38 ↓ -15%
Aetna ACO $74.21 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $78.75 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $81.90 ↑ +8%
Aetna Commercial $92.74 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $94.75 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $107.10 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $118.15 ↑ +56%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $118.15 ↑ +56%

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Giardia ag if at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $75.60 $12.31 – $107.10
UPMC Hanover Hanover $75.60 $12.31 – $21.78
UPMC Lititz Lititz $75.60 $12.31 – $21.78
UPMC Memorial York $75.60 $12.31 – $79.67
UPMC Somerset Somerset $75.60 $13.45 – $17.11

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