Immune complex assay 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

$88.80

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.

$148.00

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.

$24.13 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $188.30 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $24.13 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $24.49 ↓ -72%
Humana Medicare $25.10 ↓ -72%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $25.21 ↓ -72%
Aetna Medicare $25.42 ↓ -71%
Cigna Medicare $25.59 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare Medicare $26.08 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $26.32 ↓ -70%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $29.60 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $29.60 ↓ -67%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $30.00 ↓ -66%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $35.82 ↓ -60%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $39.30 ↓ -56%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $40.86 ↓ -54%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $43.70 ↓ -51%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $51.13 ↓ -42%
Aetna ACO $87.17 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $92.50 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $96.20 ↑ +8%
Aetna Commercial $108.93 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $111.30 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $125.80 ↑ +42%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $127.79 ↑ +44%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $142.48 ↑ +60%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $142.48 ↑ +60%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $142.48 ↑ +60%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $188.30 ↑ +112%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $188.30 ↑ +112%

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Immune complex assay at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $243.00 $24.09 – $324.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $338.40 $8.79 – $507.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $88.80 $17.75 – $125.80
UPMC Cole Coudersport $178.20 $15.84 – $237.60
UPMC East Monroeville $306.00 $24.09 – $408.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $274.80 $24.09 – $47.10
UPMC Northwest Seneca $289.20 $22.10 – $34.50
UPMC Hanover Hanover $88.80 $17.75 – $40.86

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