Susceptibility mic per plate 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

$48.60

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.

$81.00

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.

$8.00 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $66.80 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.

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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
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $8.00 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $8.56 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $8.69 ↓ -82%
Humana Medicare $8.91 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $8.95 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicare $9.02 ↓ -81%
Cigna Medicare $9.08 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare $9.26 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $9.34 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $10.48 ↓ -78%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $10.60 ↓ -78%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $10.60 ↓ -78%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $10.90 ↓ -78%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $11.65 ↓ -76%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $12.83 ↓ -74%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $13.63 ↓ -72%
Aetna ACO $31.22 ↓ -36%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $33.12 ↓ -32%
InterGroup PPO $34.45 ↓ -29%
Aetna Commercial $39.01 ↓ -20%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $39.37 ↓ -19%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $39.86 ↓ -18%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $45.05 ↓ -7%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $50.52 ↑ +4%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $50.52 ↑ +4%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $50.52 ↑ +4%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $66.80 ↑ +37%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $66.80 ↑ +37%

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Susceptibility mic per plate at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $85.20 $8.00 – $113.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $58.80 $3.12 – $88.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $48.60 $7.03 – $68.85
UPMC Cole Coudersport $61.20 $5.62 – $81.60
UPMC East Monroeville $129.60 $8.00 – $172.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $106.20 $8.00 – $16.71
UPMC Northwest Seneca $42.00 $7.84 – $9.34
UPMC Hanover Hanover $48.60 $7.03 – $13.84

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