Acetaminophen level at UPMC Carlisle

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published unknown · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$159.60

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.

$266.00

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.

$10.25 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $226.10 with Multiplan — 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
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $10.25 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $14.89 ↓ -91%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $18.45 ↓ -88%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $18.45 ↓ -88%
Humana Medicare $18.64 ↓ -88%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $19.28 ↓ -88%
Aetna Medicare $19.44 ↓ -88%
Geisinger Medicare $19.57 ↓ -88%
Cigna Medicare $19.57 ↓ -88%
United Healthcare Medicare $19.94 ↓ -88%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $20.13 ↓ -87%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $29.82 ↓ -81%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $36.44 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $52.43 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $53.20 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $53.20 ↓ -67%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $54.65 ↓ -66%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $58.25 ↓ -64%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $87.14 ↓ -45%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $103.74 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $104.54 ↓ -34%
Prime Net ACO $104.54 ↓ -34%
United Healthcare Commercial $110.90 ↓ -31%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $123.69 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $124.49 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $124.49 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $145.50 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $145.50 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $145.50 ↓ -9%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $146.30 ↓ -8%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $146.30 ↓ -8%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $172.90 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $174.18 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $186.20 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $201.10 ↑ +26%
Cigna Commercial $207.48 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $226.10 ↑ +42%

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Acetaminophen level at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $159.60 $14.89 – $226.10
UPMC Hanover Hanover $159.60 $14.89 – $87.14
UPMC Lititz Lititz $159.60 $14.89 – $87.14
UPMC Memorial York $159.60 $11.35 – $92.35
UPMC Somerset Somerset $159.60 $13.08 – $20.13
Uniontown Hospital Uniontown $102.00 $17.62 – $38.72

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