Injection radioactive tracer sentinel node (both sides) at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$837.60
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.
$1,396.00
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.
$279.20 with Capital Blue Cross vs $2,120.00 with Aetna — 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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| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $279.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $279.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $282.44 | ↓ -66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $282.44 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $310.59 | ↓ -63% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $337.83 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $391.32 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $397.21 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Medicare | $407.13 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $412.27 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $415.03 | ↓ -50% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $422.94 | ↓ -50% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $426.89 | ↓ -49% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $767.80 | ↓ -8% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $907.40 | ↑ +8% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,049.79 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $1,186.60 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,439.54 | ↑ +72% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,471.05 | ↑ +76% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,471.05 | ↑ +76% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,471.05 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,633.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $1,802.00 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,120.00 | ↑ +153% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Injection radioactive tracer sentinel node (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $483.60 | $68.42 – $644.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $837.60 | $191.25 – $1,186.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $80.40 | $37.14 – $771.51 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $389.40 | $69.07 – $519.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,941.00 | $68.42 – $557.18 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $837.60 | $310.59 – $1,439.54 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $672.00 | $69.63 – $517.18 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $837.60 | $310.59 – $1,439.54 |