Xray place dist ext thor ao 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

$520.80

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.

$868.00

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.

$173.60 with Capital Blue Cross vs $737.80 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
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $173.60 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $173.60 ↓ -67%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $210.06 ↓ -60%
Aetna Medicare $217.87 ↓ -58%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $477.40 ↓ -8%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $479.74 ↓ -8%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $479.74 ↓ -8%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $503.70 ↓ -3%
Aetna ACO $511.25 ↓ -2%
Aetna PEBTF ACO $542.50 ↑ +4%
InterGroup PPO $564.20 ↑ +8%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $607.60 ↑ +17%
Aetna Commercial $638.85 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $652.74 ↑ +25%
Wellspan Population Health Commercial $737.80 ↑ +42%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital

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Xray place dist ext thor ao at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $388.80 $226.80 – $518.40
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $520.80 $118.92 – $737.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $3,862.20 $1,099.61 – $1,099.61

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