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New Patient Office Visit (level 2) at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$214.80
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.
$358.00
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.
$19.80 with Capital Blue Cross vs $397.63 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.
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 | $19.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $19.80 | ↓ -91% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $23.96 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $24.85 | ↓ -88% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $44.87 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $46.28 | ↓ -78% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $48.12 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | ACO | $48.61 | ↓ -77% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $51.46 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $51.58 | ↓ -76% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $54.72 | ↓ -75% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $54.72 | ↓ -75% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $57.45 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $60.21 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $60.69 | ↓ -72% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $64.35 | ↓ -70% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $74.45 | ↓ -65% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $84.15 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $105.40 | ↓ -51% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $238.45 | ↑ +11% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $397.63 | ↑ +85% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $397.63 | ↑ +85% |
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New Patient Office Visit (level 2) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $255.60 | $36.08 – $340.80 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $183.60 | $38.86 – $260.10 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $180.00 | $38.86 – $210.00 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $207.00 | $20.00 – $276.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $216.00 | $36.08 – $324.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $183.00 | $37.10 – $140.00 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $59.40 | $18.81 – $105.40 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $260.40 | $37.10 – $368.90 |