Unlisted laparoscopic liver biopy 47379 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

$3,289.80

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.

$5,483.00

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.

$126.00 with UPMC Health Plan vs $11,127.90 with Keystone 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.

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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
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $126.00 ↓ -96%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $4,165.03 ↑ +27%
InterGroup PPO $4,660.55 ↑ +42%
Aetna ACO $4,935.00 ↑ +50%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $5,448.00 ↑ +66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $5,681.75 ↑ +73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $5,767.26 ↑ +75%
Humana Medicare $5,911.31 ↑ +80%
Aetna Medicare $5,985.92 ↑ +82%
Cigna Medicare $6,026.10 ↑ +83%
United Healthcare Medicare $6,140.88 ↑ +87%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $6,198.27 ↑ +88%
Aetna Commercial $6,409.00 ↑ +95%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $11,127.90 ↑ +238%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $11,127.90 ↑ +238%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $11,127.90 ↑ +238%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Unlisted laparoscopic liver biopy 47379 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Somerset Somerset $3,289.80 $75.47 – $6,006.79
Uniontown Hospital Uniontown $4,549.67 $5,859.67 – $13,653.03
UPMC Altoona Altoona not published $126.00 – $6,007.35
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle not published $126.00 – $8,930.03
UPMC East Monroeville not published $71.98 – $6,118.60
UPMC Hamot Erie not published $156.43 – $8,090.06
UPMC Lititz Lititz not published $126.00 – $8,965.87
UPMC Memorial York not published $126.00 – $18,531.45

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