X-ray retrograde pyelogram with or without kidney ureter bladder w/supervision & interpretation 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

$896.40

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What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

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$1,494.00

Gross charge

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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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$29.48 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $589.56 with Highmark BCBS of PA — same scan, same building. Share

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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

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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $29.48 ↓ -97%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $47.62 ↓ -95%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $51.08 ↓ -94%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $54.62 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $63.91 ↓ -93%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $101.20 ↓ -89%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $101.20 ↓ -89%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $122.45 ↓ -86%
Premier Comp Solutions Worker's Comp $277.54 ↓ -69%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $281.79 ↓ -69%
Aetna ACO $298.03 ↓ -67%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $316.25 ↓ -65%
InterGroup PPO $328.90 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $347.79 ↓ -61%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $353.02 ↓ -61%
Humana Medicare $361.84 ↓ -60%
Aetna Medicare $366.41 ↓ -59%
Cigna Medicare $368.87 ↓ -59%
Aetna Commercial $372.42 ↓ -58%
United Healthcare Medicare $375.89 ↓ -58%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $379.40 ↓ -58%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $380.51 ↓ -58%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $430.10 ↓ -52%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $432.32 ↓ -52%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $561.36 ↓ -37%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $561.36 ↓ -37%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $561.36 ↓ -37%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $589.56 ↓ -34%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $589.56 ↓ -34%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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X-ray retrograde pyelogram with or without kidney ureter bladder w/supervision & interpretation at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $536.40 $22.50 – $715.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $306.60 $39.38 – $459.90
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $896.40 $29.48 – $1,269.90
UPMC Cole Coudersport $459.60 $39.38 – $612.80
UPMC East Monroeville $1,785.00 $41.25 – $2,380.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $372.00 $41.25 – $566.90
UPMC Northwest Seneca $426.00 $41.25 – $357.50
UPMC Hanover Hanover $896.40 $29.48 – $545.87

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