Injection into brain canal at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$961.20
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.
$1,602.00
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.
$142.43 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $3,135.30 with Keystone Health Plan — 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 | $142.43 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $143.69 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $153.67 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $179.79 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $287.47 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $291.79 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare | $299.08 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $302.86 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $304.89 | ↓ -68% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $310.70 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $313.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $320.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $320.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $387.68 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $455.32 | ↓ -53% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,016.56 | ↑ +6% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $1,041.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,204.70 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $1,361.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,633.00 | ↑ +70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,714.89 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $1,802.00 | ↑ +87% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,120.00 | ↑ +121% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,249.82 | ↑ +134% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $2,249.82 | ↑ +134% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $3,135.30 | ↑ +226% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $3,135.30 | ↑ +226% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $3,135.30 | ↑ +226% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection into brain canal at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $961.20 | $133.99 – $1,361.70 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $961.20 | $133.99 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $267.00 | $116.05 – $498.15 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $961.20 | $133.99 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $961.20 | $133.99 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,094.40 | $116.05 – $993.28 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $2,740.80 | $116.05 – $931.20 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $961.20 | $116.05 – $892.40 |