Infectious agent nucleic acid quantification bk virus 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

$238.80

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.

$398.00

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.

$34.23 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $454.55 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $34.23 ↓ -86%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $38.20 ↓ -84%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $38.20 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $42.41 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $43.05 ↓ -82%
Humana Medicare $44.13 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $44.31 ↓ -81%
Aetna Medicare $44.68 ↓ -81%
Cigna Medicare $44.98 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare $45.84 ↓ -81%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $46.22 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $46.27 ↓ -81%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $105.05 ↓ -56%
Aetna ACO $112.50 ↓ -53%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $119.38 ↓ -50%
InterGroup PPO $124.15 ↓ -48%
Aetna Commercial $140.58 ↓ -41%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $143.63 ↓ -40%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $162.35 ↓ -32%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $250.38 ↑ +5%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $250.38 ↑ +5%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $250.38 ↑ +5%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $315.28 ↑ +32%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $454.55 ↑ +90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $454.55 ↑ +90%

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Infectious agent nucleic acid quantification bk virus at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $427.20 $42.34 – $569.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $254.40 $15.46 – $381.60
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $238.80 $23.56 – $338.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $584.40 $27.85 – $779.20
UPMC East Monroeville $879.00 $42.34 – $1,172.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $719.40 $42.34 – $113.70
UPMC Northwest Seneca $385.80 $38.85 – $46.27
UPMC Hanover Hanover $238.80 $34.23 – $315.28

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