Pet CT skull-mid thgh initial 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

$5,639.40

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.

$9,399.00

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.

$94.20 with Keystone Health Plan vs $14,726.66 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
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $94.20 ↓ -98%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $94.20 ↓ -98%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $113.98 ↓ -98%
Aetna ACO $277.42 ↓ -95%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $294.38 ↓ -95%
InterGroup PPO $306.15 ↓ -95%
Aetna Commercial $346.66 ↓ -94%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $354.19 ↓ -94%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $400.35 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare $1,315.49 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $1,420.44 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $1,441.82 ↓ -74%
Humana Medicare $1,477.83 ↓ -74%
Cigna Medicare $1,506.53 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,535.23 ↓ -73%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,549.57 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,581.50 ↓ -72%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1,660.19 ↓ -71%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $1,780.46 ↓ -68%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1,904.13 ↓ -66%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $2,227.80 ↓ -60%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $2,800.00 ↓ -50%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $4,992.65 ↓ -11%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $4,992.65 ↓ -11%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $4,992.65 ↓ -11%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $14,726.66 ↑ +161%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $14,726.66 ↑ +161%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Pet CT skull-mid thgh initial at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $5,901.60 $1,207.25 – $7,868.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $5,639.40 $800.00 – $7,989.15
UPMC Cole Coudersport $8,425.20 $1,372.60 – $11,233.60
UPMC Northwest Seneca $10,513.20 $777.40 – $1,503.33
UPMC Hanover Hanover $5,639.40 $800.00 – $7,584.17
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $8,429.40 $779.90 – $2,609.44
UPMC Kane Kane $5,818.20 $1,437.96 – $5,997.30
UPMC Lititz Lititz $5,639.40 $800.00 – $7,584.17

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