Thoracentesis pleural space needle/catheter aspiration with imaging guidance (both sides) at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$2,304.60
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.
$3,841.00
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.
$94.00 with Capital Blue Cross vs $2,656.50 with Capital Blue Cross — 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 | $94.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $94.00 | ↓ -96% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $113.74 | ↓ -95% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $258.50 | ↓ -89% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $305.50 | ↓ -87% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $353.44 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $399.50 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $602.09 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $611.15 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare | $626.42 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $634.32 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $638.58 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $650.74 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $656.82 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $903.30 | ↓ -61% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,016.56 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,221.53 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,633.00 | ↓ -29% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,666.46 | ↓ -28% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $1,666.46 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $1,802.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,120.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2,656.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2,656.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2,656.50 | ↑ +15% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | Tricare | not published by hospital | — |
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Thoracentesis pleural space needle/catheter aspiration with imaging guidance (both sides) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,635.00 | $403.71 – $2,180.00 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,040.00 | $212.67 – $3,060.00 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $2,304.60 | $64.39 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,092.60 | $42.41 – $863.16 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,153.40 | $407.56 – $2,871.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,974.60 | $403.71 – $863.16 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $1,509.00 | $534.56 – $863.16 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,304.60 | $584.71 – $1,221.53 |