Warde immunofixation electrophoresis urine 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

$163.80

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.

$273.00

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.

$29.06 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $171.55 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.

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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
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $29.06 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $29.49 ↓ -82%
Humana Medicare $30.23 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $30.36 ↓ -81%
Aetna Medicare $30.61 ↓ -81%
Cigna Medicare $30.82 ↓ -81%
United Healthcare Medicare $31.40 ↓ -81%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $31.70 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $32.80 ↓ -80%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $36.00 ↓ -78%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $36.00 ↓ -78%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $39.82 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $42.97 ↓ -74%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $43.56 ↓ -73%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $44.67 ↓ -73%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $47.78 ↓ -71%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $55.90 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $68.74 ↓ -58%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $68.74 ↓ -58%
Aetna ACO $106.02 ↓ -35%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $112.50 ↓ -31%
InterGroup PPO $117.00 ↓ -29%
Aetna Commercial $132.48 ↓ -19%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $135.36 ↓ -17%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $153.00 ↓ -7%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $171.55 ↑ +5%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $171.55 ↑ +5%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $171.55 ↑ +5%

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Warde immunofixation electrophoresis urine at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $216.00 $17.19 – $288.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $111.60 $10.59 – $88.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $163.80 $29.06 – $204.85
UPMC Cole Coudersport $134.40 $19.08 – $179.20
UPMC East Monroeville $133.20 $10.95 – $177.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $274.80 $17.19 – $45.59
UPMC Northwest Seneca $241.20 $11.05 – $37.72
UPMC Hanover Hanover $163.80 $29.06 – $46.96

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