Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at UPMC Community Osteopathic
111 South Front Street, Harrisburg, PA · UPMC · · NPI 157809786
$100.20
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.
$167.00
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.
$17.80 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $186.59 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $17.80 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $18.07 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare | $18.52 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $18.60 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $18.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $18.88 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $19.24 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $19.42 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $20.09 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $26.32 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $27.36 | ↓ -73% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $29.26 | ↓ -71% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $33.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $33.40 | ↓ -67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO | $34.24 | ↓ -66% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $40.41 | ↓ -60% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $85.62 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | ACO | $98.36 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | PEBTF ACO | $104.38 | ↑ +4% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $105.05 | ↑ +5% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $105.05 | ↑ +5% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $105.05 | ↑ +5% |
| InterGroup | PPO | $108.55 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $122.91 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $125.58 | ↑ +25% |
| Wellspan Population Health | Commercial | $141.95 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $186.59 | ↑ +86% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP | $186.59 | ↑ +86% |
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Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $93.60 | $17.78 – $124.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $104.40 | $6.49 – $156.60 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $100.20 | $8.88 – $141.95 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $358.80 | $17.78 – $478.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $98.40 | $17.78 – $46.67 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $158.40 | $16.31 – $23.10 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $100.20 | $8.88 – $28.77 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $105.00 | $16.10 – $33.74 |