Volume measurement urine timed at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$25.80
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.
$43.00
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.
$2.91 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $32.55 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.
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 | $2.91 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $3.60 | ↓ -86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $3.66 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare | $3.75 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $3.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $3.80 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $3.82 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $3.89 | ↓ -85% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $3.93 | ↓ -85% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $6.40 | ↓ -75% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $6.40 | ↓ -75% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $7.74 | ↓ -70% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $17.50 | ↓ -32% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $17.50 | ↓ -32% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $17.50 | ↓ -32% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $17.60 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | ACO | $18.85 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $20.00 | ↓ -22% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $20.80 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $23.55 | ↓ -9% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $24.06 | ↓ -7% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $27.20 | ↑ +5% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $31.47 | ↑ +22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $32.55 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $32.55 | ↑ +26% |
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Volume measurement urine timed at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $24.60 | $1.31 – $36.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $25.80 | $2.00 – $36.55 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $47.40 | $3.30 – $3.93 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $25.80 | $2.91 – $31.47 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $29.40 | $3.26 – $6.83 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $24.60 | $2.55 – $8.29 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $39.00 | $3.59 – $23.18 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $25.80 | $2.91 – $31.47 |