Str markers specimen anal at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$505.20
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.
$842.00
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.
$168.40 with Keystone Health Plan vs $1,872.14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $168.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $168.40 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $186.24 | ↓ -63% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $203.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $230.74 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $234.21 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Medicare | $240.06 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $241.06 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $243.09 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $244.72 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $249.38 | ↓ -51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $251.72 | ↓ -50% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $463.10 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | ACO | $495.94 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $526.25 | ↑ +4% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $547.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $619.71 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $633.18 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $715.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,174.55 | ↑ +132% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,174.55 | ↑ +132% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,174.55 | ↑ +132% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $1,535.37 | ↑ +204% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,535.37 | ↑ +204% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,872.14 | ↑ +271% |
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Str markers specimen anal at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $262.80 | $219.00 – $384.07 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $505.20 | $115.35 – $715.70 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,709.40 | $230.35 – $384.07 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $265.20 | $211.37 – $251.72 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $505.20 | $186.24 – $1,872.14 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,709.40 | $208.67 – $437.36 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $505.20 | $186.24 – $1,872.14 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $1,683.00 | $218.13 – $387.72 |