Protein total serum plasma whole blood at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$21.00
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.
$35.00
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.
$3.63 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $28.24 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 | $3.63 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $3.69 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare | $3.78 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3.80 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3.83 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3.85 | ↓ -82% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3.93 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3.96 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $4.67 | ↓ -78% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $6.12 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $6.36 | ↓ -70% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.60 | ↓ -69% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $6.60 | ↓ -69% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $6.80 | ↓ -68% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $7.96 | ↓ -62% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $7.99 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | ACO | $19.44 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $20.62 | ↓ -2% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $21.42 | ↑ +2% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $21.42 | ↑ +2% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $21.42 | ↑ +2% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $21.45 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $24.29 | ↑ +16% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $24.82 | ↑ +18% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $27.94 | ↑ +33% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $28.05 | ↑ +34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $28.24 | ↑ +34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $28.24 | ↑ +34% |
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Protein total serum plasma whole blood at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $73.80 | $3.63 – $98.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $58.80 | $1.32 – $88.20 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $19.80 | $3.63 – $28.05 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $28.20 | $2.39 – $37.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $54.60 | $3.63 – $72.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $97.20 | $3.63 – $7.06 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $37.20 | $3.33 – $5.37 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $19.80 | $3.63 – $6.36 |