X-ray swallowing function w/ciner/videoradiography neck radiographs(s)&delayed images contrast study 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

$427.80

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.

$713.00

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.

$36.68 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $606.05 with Wellspan Population Health — 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $36.68 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $58.42 ↓ -86%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $62.65 ↓ -85%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $67.00 ↓ -84%
PA Health & Wellness Community Health Choices/PA Medicaid HMO $78.39 ↓ -82%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $142.60 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $142.60 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $172.55 ↓ -60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $173.36 ↓ -59%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $175.97 ↓ -59%
Humana Medicare $180.36 ↓ -58%
Aetna Medicare $182.64 ↓ -57%
Cigna Medicare $183.87 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare Medicare $187.37 ↓ -56%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $189.12 ↓ -56%
Premier Comp Solutions Worker's Comp $190.58 ↓ -55%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $195.76 ↓ -54%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $273.39 ↓ -36%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $293.32 ↓ -31%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $293.32 ↓ -31%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $293.32 ↓ -31%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $392.28 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP $392.28 ↓ -8%
Aetna ACO $419.96 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $445.62 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $463.45 ↑ +8%
Aetna Commercial $524.77 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $536.18 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $606.05 ↑ +42%
Tricare Tricare not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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X-ray swallowing function w/ciner/videoradiography neck radiographs(s)&delayed images contrast study at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $793.80 $28.00 – $1,058.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $640.80 $48.30 – $961.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $427.80 $36.68 – $606.05
UPMC Cole Coudersport $385.80 $48.30 – $514.40
UPMC East Monroeville $832.80 $50.60 – $1,110.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $442.20 $50.60 – $270.53
UPMC Northwest Seneca $610.80 $50.60 – $187.06
UPMC Hanover Hanover $427.80 $36.68 – $272.10

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