Mayo infectious agent nucleic acid quantification cytomegalovirus 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

$259.20

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.

$432.00

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.

$42.41 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $454.55 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 $42.41 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $43.05 ↓ -83%
Humana Medicare $44.13 ↓ -83%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $44.31 ↓ -83%
Aetna Medicare $44.68 ↓ -83%
Cigna Medicare $44.98 ↓ -83%
United Healthcare Medicare $45.84 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $46.27 ↓ -82%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $48.54 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $63.59 ↓ -75%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $66.11 ↓ -74%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $70.70 ↓ -73%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $79.60 ↓ -69%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $79.60 ↓ -69%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $82.72 ↓ -68%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $96.32 ↓ -63%
Aetna ACO $234.42 ↓ -10%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $248.75 ↓ -4%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $250.38 ↓ -3%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $250.38 ↓ -3%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $250.38 ↓ -3%
InterGroup PPO $258.70 ↓ -0%
Aetna Commercial $292.93 ↑ +13%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $299.30 ↑ +15%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $332.02 ↑ +28%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $338.30 ↑ +31%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $454.55 ↑ +75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $454.55 ↑ +75%

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Mayo infectious agent nucleic acid quantification cytomegalovirus at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $293.40 $42.34 – $391.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $257.40 $15.46 – $386.10
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $238.80 $42.41 – $338.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $197.40 $27.85 – $263.20
UPMC East Monroeville $879.00 $42.34 – $1,172.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $373.80 $42.34 – $113.70
UPMC Northwest Seneca $236.40 $38.85 – $55.82
UPMC Hanover Hanover $238.80 $42.41 – $68.54

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