Insertion catheter pleural indwelling tunneled with cuff 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

$8,638.80

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.

$14,398.00

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.

$1,016.56 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $12,238.30 with Wellspan Population Health — 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 $1,016.56 ↓ -88%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,295.23 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,729.90 ↓ -80%
Aetna ACO $2,684.00 ↓ -69%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $2,879.60 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $2,879.60 ↓ -67%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $2,963.00 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $3,436.76 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $3,484.32 ↓ -60%
Aetna Commercial $3,485.00 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $3,488.48 ↓ -60%
Humana Medicare $3,575.61 ↓ -59%
Aetna Medicare $3,620.74 ↓ -58%
Cigna Medicare $3,645.04 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare Medicare $3,714.47 ↓ -57%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $3,749.19 ↓ -57%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $5,853.89 ↓ -32%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $5,853.89 ↓ -32%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $7,348.95 ↓ -15%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $7,348.95 ↓ -15%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $7,348.95 ↓ -15%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $7,918.90 ↓ -8%
InterGroup PPO $9,358.70 ↑ +8%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $10,827.30 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $12,238.30 ↑ +42%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Insertion catheter pleural indwelling tunneled with cuff at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $3,090.00 $1,237.66 – $4,120.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $8,638.80 $1,016.56 – $12,238.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $343.80 $158.84 – $1,237.66
UPMC East Monroeville $7,321.80 $1,237.66 – $9,762.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $4,134.60 $1,237.66 – $4,893.48
UPMC Northwest Seneca $8,501.40 $817.19 – $3,633.70
UPMC Hanover Hanover $8,638.80 $1,016.56 – $5,394.10
UPMC Lititz Lititz $8,638.80 $1,016.56 – $5,423.23

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