L/s ratio fetal lung 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

$79.80

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.

$133.00

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.

$21.77 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $238.83 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
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $21.77 ↓ -73%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $22.00 ↓ -72%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $22.10 ↓ -72%
Humana Medicare $22.65 ↓ -72%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $22.74 ↓ -72%
Aetna Medicare $22.94 ↓ -71%
Cigna Medicare $23.09 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare Medicare $23.53 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $23.75 ↓ -70%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $26.60 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $26.60 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $28.82 ↓ -64%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $29.96 ↓ -62%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $32.05 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $32.19 ↓ -60%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $37.49 ↓ -53%
Aetna ACO $78.34 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $83.12 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $86.45 ↑ +8%
Aetna Commercial $97.89 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $100.02 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $113.05 ↑ +42%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $128.47 ↑ +61%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $128.47 ↑ +61%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $128.47 ↑ +61%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $182.56 ↑ +129%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $238.83 ↑ +199%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $238.83 ↑ +199%

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L/s ratio fetal lung at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $79.80 $17.94 – $113.05
UPMC Hanover Hanover $79.80 $17.94 – $35.18
UPMC Lititz Lititz $79.80 $17.94 – $35.18
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,012.80 $20.58 – $60.31
UPMC Memorial York $79.80 $17.94 – $158.99
UPMC Muncy Muncy $405.00 $21.73 – $37.49
UPMC Somerset Somerset $79.80 $21.73 – $30.58
UPMC Wellsboro Wellsboro $489.60 $21.73 – $37.49

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