Red blood cells each unit at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$200.40
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.
$334.00
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.
$38.10 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $2,411.64 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $38.10 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $39.30 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $40.86 | ↓ -80% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $43.70 | ↓ -78% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $51.13 | ↓ -74% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $66.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $66.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $80.83 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $140.54 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $142.66 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | Medicare | $146.22 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $148.06 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $149.06 | ↓ -26% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $151.90 | ↓ -24% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $153.32 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | ACO | $163.99 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $174.01 | ↓ -13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $184.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $184.60 | ↓ -8% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $193.82 | ↓ -3% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $198.09 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $204.74 | ↑ +2% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $217.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $251.17 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $283.90 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $323.54 | ↑ +61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $323.54 | ↑ +61% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,411.64 | ↑ +1103% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Red blood cells each unit at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $462.60 | $30.00 – $616.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $525.60 | $31.50 – $788.40 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $200.40 | $38.10 – $283.90 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $375.00 | $33.00 – $500.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $360.00 | $33.00 – $189.29 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,855.20 | $33.00 – $189.29 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $200.40 | $38.10 – $220.59 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $209.40 | $33.00 – $189.29 |