X-ray bone survey complete 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

$262.80

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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.

$438.00

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.

$27.20 with Capital Blue Cross vs $461.99 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.

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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
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $27.20 ↓ -90%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $27.20 ↓ -90%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $32.91 ↓ -87%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $59.24 ↓ -77%
Aetna ACO $80.10 ↓ -70%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $83.17 ↓ -68%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $85.00 ↓ -68%
InterGroup PPO $88.40 ↓ -66%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $89.20 ↓ -66%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $95.39 ↓ -64%
Aetna Commercial $100.10 ↓ -62%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $102.27 ↓ -61%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $103.55 ↓ -61%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $105.11 ↓ -60%
Humana Medicare $107.74 ↓ -59%
Aetna Medicare $109.10 ↓ -58%
Cigna Medicare $109.83 ↓ -58%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $111.61 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare Medicare $111.92 ↓ -57%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $112.97 ↓ -57%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $115.60 ↓ -56%
Premier Comp Solutions Worker's Comp $136.50 ↓ -48%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $136.50 ↓ -48%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $343.29 ↑ +31%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $343.29 ↑ +31%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $343.29 ↑ +31%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $445.26 ↑ +69%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $461.99 ↑ +76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $461.99 ↑ +76%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital

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X-ray bone survey complete at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $228.00 $45.22 – $304.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $354.00 $36.58 – $531.00
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $262.80 $59.24 – $372.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $301.20 $68.76 – $401.60
UPMC East Monroeville $732.60 $72.04 – $976.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $712.20 $72.04 – $166.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $516.60 $72.04 – $130.44
UPMC Hanover Hanover $262.80 $59.24 – $162.54

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