Lap insert tunnel ip cath 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

$1,267.20

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.

$2,112.00

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.

$550.94 with UPMC Work Partners vs $11,127.90 with Capital Blue Cross — 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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $550.94 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,016.56 ↓ -20%
InterGroup PPO $1,795.20 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $2,544.38 ↑ +101%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $2,544.38 ↑ +101%
Aetna ACO $4,374.00 ↑ +245%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $4,829.00 ↑ +281%
Aetna Commercial $5,681.00 ↑ +348%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $5,681.75 ↑ +348%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $5,767.26 ↑ +355%
Humana Medicare $5,911.31 ↑ +366%
Aetna Medicare $5,985.92 ↑ +372%
Cigna Medicare $6,026.10 ↑ +376%
United Healthcare Medicare $6,140.88 ↑ +385%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $6,198.27 ↑ +389%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $7,851.65 ↑ +520%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $11,127.90 ↑ +778%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $11,127.90 ↑ +778%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $11,127.90 ↑ +778%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Lap insert tunnel ip cath at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Cole Coudersport $600.00 $277.20 – $1,470.59
UPMC Somerset Somerset $1,267.20 $364.45 – $393.57
Uniontown Hospital Uniontown $2,159.00 $205.80 – $12,170.53
UPMC Altoona Altoona not published $526.46 – $6,007.35
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle not published $550.94 – $8,930.03
UPMC East Monroeville not published $526.46 – $6,118.60
UPMC Hamot Erie not published $526.46 – $8,090.06
UPMC Northwest Seneca not published $526.46 – $6,007.35

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