Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$24.00
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.
$40.00
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.
$4.71 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $35.82 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $4.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $4.78 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare | $4.90 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $4.92 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $4.96 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $5.00 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $5.09 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $5.14 | ↓ -79% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $6.34 | ↓ -74% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.60 | ↓ -73% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $6.60 | ↓ -73% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $7.99 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $8.31 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $8.64 | ↓ -64% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $9.23 | ↓ -62% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $10.80 | ↓ -55% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $16.52 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | ACO | $19.44 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $20.62 | ↓ -14% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $21.45 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $24.29 | ↑ +1% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $24.82 | ↑ +3% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $26.82 | ↑ +12% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $26.82 | ↑ +12% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $26.82 | ↑ +12% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $28.05 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $35.82 | ↑ +49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $35.82 | ↑ +49% |
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Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $40.80 | $4.70 – $54.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $33.00 | $1.72 – $49.50 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $24.00 | $4.71 – $34.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $36.60 | $3.09 – $48.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $68.40 | $4.54 – $82.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $45.00 | $4.70 – $8.96 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $34.80 | $4.32 – $7.29 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $24.00 | $4.71 – $8.64 |