Injection for bladder x-ray at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$585.00
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$975.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$41.92 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,249.82 with Highmark BCBS of PA — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $41.92 | ↓ -93% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $43.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $43.58 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $46.61 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $54.53 | ↓ -91% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $56.60 | ↓ -90% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $56.60 | ↓ -90% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $68.49 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $71.03 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $97.36 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | ACO | $138.95 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $147.44 | ↓ -75% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $156.41 | ↓ -73% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $156.41 | ↓ -73% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $164.22 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $173.48 | ↓ -70% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $183.95 | ↓ -69% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $212.82 | ↓ -64% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $240.55 | ↓ -59% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,712.98 | ↑ +193% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,249.82 | ↑ +285% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $2,249.82 | ↑ +285% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Injection for bladder x-ray at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,905.80 | $32.00 – $3,874.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $585.00 | $40.64 – $9,539.00 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,281.20 | $35.20 – $3,041.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,310.60 | $35.20 – $545.04 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,055.60 | $35.20 – $1,414.58 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $585.00 | $40.64 – $97.36 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,956.60 | $33.60 – $1,060.34 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $1,296.60 | $35.20 – $554.65 |