Screen cerv/vag thin layer at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$145.20
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.
$242.00
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.
$16.19 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $178.64 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $16.19 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $20.06 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $20.36 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare | $20.87 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $21.13 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $21.27 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $21.68 | ↓ -85% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $21.88 | ↓ -85% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $39.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $39.00 | ↓ -73% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $47.19 | ↓ -68% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $88.54 | ↓ -39% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $107.25 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | ACO | $114.86 | ↓ -21% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $118.42 | ↓ -18% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $118.42 | ↓ -18% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $118.42 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $121.88 | ↓ -16% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $126.75 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $143.52 | ↓ -1% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $146.64 | ↑ +1% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $165.75 | ↑ +14% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $178.64 | ↑ +23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $178.64 | ↑ +23% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $70.20 | $20.66 – $93.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $61.20 | $7.31 – $91.80 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $145.20 | $11.14 – $205.70 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $61.20 | $20.31 – $81.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $61.20 | $20.26 – $44.69 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $61.20 | $18.37 – $21.88 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $145.20 | $16.19 – $88.54 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $61.20 | $18.14 – $38.02 |