Venipuncture >= 3 years diagnostic/therapeutic (not to be used for routine venipuncture) at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$123.00
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.
$205.00
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.
$7.31 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $174.25 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $7.31 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $37.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $41.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $41.00 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $48.22 | ↓ -61% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $49.61 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $51.45 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $76.73 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $76.73 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | ACO | $100.66 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $106.81 | ↓ -13% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $112.75 | ↓ -8% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $113.30 | ↓ -8% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $113.30 | ↓ -8% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $118.96 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $125.67 | ↑ +2% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $133.25 | ↑ +8% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $154.16 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $174.25 | ↑ +42% |
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Venipuncture >= 3 years diagnostic/therapeutic (not to be used for routine venipuncture) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $75.60 | $18.59 – $100.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $128.40 | $34.90 – $192.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $123.00 | $7.31 – $174.25 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $63.00 | $11.64 – $88.25 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $102.60 | $18.77 – $136.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $64.20 | $18.59 – $59.86 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $122.40 | $34.75 – $48.24 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $123.00 | $7.31 – $48.22 |