Test pathogen(s) for platelets reference at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$51.00
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.
$85.00
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.
$17.00 with Capital Blue Cross vs $72.25 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.
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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| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $17.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $17.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $20.57 | ↓ -60% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $26.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $26.60 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | ACO | $41.73 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $44.28 | ↓ -13% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $45.93 | ↓ -10% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $46.75 | ↓ -8% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $46.98 | ↓ -8% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $46.98 | ↓ -8% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $49.33 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $52.10 | ↑ +2% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $55.25 | ↑ +8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $57.85 | ↑ +13% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $58.72 | ↑ +15% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $59.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Humana | Medicare | $60.18 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $60.94 | ↑ +19% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $61.35 | ↑ +20% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $62.52 | ↑ +23% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $63.10 | ↑ +24% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $63.92 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $72.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Test pathogen(s) for platelets reference at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $51.00 | $11.64 – $90.91 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $51.00 | $45.93 – $90.78 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $51.00 | $45.93 – $91.28 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $51.00 | $5.42 – $91.14 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $51.00 | $6.59 – $61.15 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $238.40 | $44.55 – $174.84 |
| WellSpan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital | York PA 17403 | $238.40 | $57.50 – $174.84 |
| WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital | Lebanon | $238.40 | $44.55 – $102.69 |