Radiation treatment aid(s) 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

$489.00

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.

$815.00

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.

$42.58 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $692.75 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 $42.58 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $69.85 ↓ -86%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $74.91 ↓ -85%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $80.11 ↓ -84%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $93.73 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $129.29 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $131.24 ↓ -73%
Humana Medicare $134.52 ↓ -72%
Aetna Medicare $136.22 ↓ -72%
Cigna Medicare $137.13 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare Medicare $139.74 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $141.05 ↓ -71%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $163.00 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $163.00 ↓ -67%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $193.28 ↓ -60%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $197.23 ↓ -60%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $243.60 ↓ -50%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $243.60 ↓ -50%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $243.60 ↓ -50%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $278.94 ↓ -43%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $401.26 ↓ -18%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $401.26 ↓ -18%
Aetna ACO $480.04 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $509.38 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $529.75 ↑ +8%
Aetna Commercial $599.84 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $612.88 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $692.75 ↑ +42%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Radiation treatment aid(s) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $411.60 $32.50 – $548.80
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $489.00 $42.58 – $692.75
UPMC East Monroeville $395.40 $60.50 – $527.20
UPMC Northwest Seneca $425.40 $60.50 – $184.69
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $454.20 $60.50 – $184.69
UPMC Lititz Lititz $489.00 $42.58 – $204.03
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,484.40 $60.50 – $198.10
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $418.20 $60.50 – $198.10

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