Glucose blood by monitoring device cleared by fda for home use at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$19.20
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.
$32.00
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.
$2.00 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $28.24 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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $2.00 | ↓ -90% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $2.62 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $2.72 | ↓ -86% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $2.91 | ↓ -85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $3.25 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $3.30 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare | $3.38 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3.39 | ↓ -82% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $3.41 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3.42 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3.44 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3.51 | ↓ -82% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3.54 | ↓ -82% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $6.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $7.74 | ↓ -60% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $13.69 | ↓ -29% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $13.69 | ↓ -29% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $13.69 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | ACO | $18.85 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $20.00 | ↑ +4% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $20.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $23.55 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $24.06 | ↑ +25% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $26.49 | ↑ +38% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $27.20 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $28.24 | ↑ +47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $28.24 | ↑ +47% |
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Glucose blood by monitoring device cleared by fda for home use at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $23.40 | $2.00 – $31.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $43.80 | $1.18 – $65.70 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $11.40 | $2.00 – $16.15 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $16.80 | $2.10 – $22.40 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $54.60 | $2.00 – $72.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $39.60 | $2.00 – $7.06 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $32.40 | $2.20 – $3.44 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $11.40 | $2.00 – $5.25 |