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Pelvic MRI (with contrast) 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

$2,713.80

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.

$4,523.00

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.

$266.45 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $3,844.55 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 $266.45 ↓ -90%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $347.79 ↓ -87%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $353.02 ↓ -87%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $360.39 ↓ -87%
Humana Medicare $361.84 ↓ -87%
Aetna Medicare $366.41 ↓ -86%
Cigna Medicare $368.87 ↓ -86%
United Healthcare Medicare $375.89 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $379.40 ↓ -86%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $386.49 ↓ -86%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $413.34 ↓ -85%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $483.60 ↓ -82%
Premier Comp Solutions Worker's Comp $500.00 ↓ -82%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $904.60 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $904.60 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $1,094.57 ↓ -60%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $1,212.57 ↓ -55%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,808.58 ↓ -33%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $2,042.28 ↓ -25%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $2,042.28 ↓ -25%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $2,042.28 ↓ -25%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $2,528.79 ↓ -7%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $2,528.79 ↓ -7%
Aetna ACO $2,664.05 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $2,826.88 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $2,939.95 ↑ +8%
Aetna Commercial $3,328.93 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $3,401.30 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $3,844.55 ↑ +42%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital

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Pelvic MRI (with contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC East Monroeville $5,074.20 $312.15 – $6,765.60
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $4,621.20 $312.15 – $6,546.70
UPMC Hamot Erie $3,205.20 $213.96 – $3,739.40
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $2,853.00 $304.83 – $4,041.75
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $4,936.20 $312.15 – $6,992.95
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $2,713.80 $266.45 – $3,844.55
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,699.20 $203.40 – $2,265.60
UPMC Cole Coudersport $1,384.20 $297.96 – $1,845.60

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