Therapy nutrition individual initial f2f w/patient each 15 minutes 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

$50.40

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.

$84.00

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.

$16.80 with Capital Blue Cross vs $81.12 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
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $16.80 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $16.80 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $20.33 ↓ -60%
Aetna Medicare $21.08 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $25.99 ↓ -48%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $26.43 ↓ -48%
Aetna ACO $41.24 ↓ -18%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $43.76 ↓ -13%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $46.20 ↓ -8%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $46.43 ↓ -8%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $46.43 ↓ -8%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $48.75 ↓ -3%
Aetna Commercial $51.49 ↑ +2%
InterGroup PPO $54.60 ↑ +8%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $63.17 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $71.40 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $81.12 ↑ +61%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $81.12 ↑ +61%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Therapy nutrition individual initial f2f w/patient each 15 minutes at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $27.00 $12.97 – $36.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $27.00 $11.25 – $40.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $50.40 $11.51 – $115.00
UPMC Cole Coudersport $109.20 $26.43 – $145.60
UPMC East Monroeville $27.00 $11.25 – $36.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $27.00 $12.97 – $81.11
UPMC Northwest Seneca $27.00 $31.99 – $33.67
UPMC Hanover Hanover $50.40 $25.99 – $115.00

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