Acetone qualitative at UPMC Carlisle

361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328

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

$17.40

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.

$29.00

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.

$3.97 with Prime Net vs $43.46 with UPMC Health Plan — 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
Prime Net Managed Medicare $3.97 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $4.47 ↓ -74%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $4.47 ↓ -74%
Humana Medicare $4.52 ↓ -74%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $4.68 ↓ -73%
Aetna Medicare $4.71 ↓ -73%
Geisinger Medicare $4.75 ↓ -73%
Cigna Medicare $4.75 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Medicare $4.84 ↓ -72%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $4.88 ↓ -72%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $5.27 ↓ -70%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $5.80 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $5.80 ↓ -67%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $6.69 ↓ -62%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $6.85 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $6.90 ↓ -60%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $7.18 ↓ -59%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $7.23 ↓ -58%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $7.68 ↓ -56%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $8.98 ↓ -48%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $11.31 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $11.40 ↓ -34%
Aetna ACO $11.40 ↓ -34%
Cigna Commercial $11.76 ↓ -32%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $12.71 ↓ -27%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $13.25 ↓ -24%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $13.48 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $13.57 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $13.57 ↓ -22%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $14.13 ↓ -19%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $15.86 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $15.86 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $15.86 ↓ -9%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $18.85 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $18.99 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $20.30 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $21.92 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $24.65 ↑ +42%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $43.46 ↑ +150%

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Acetone qualitative at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Bedford Everett $33.00 $1.63 – $49.50
UPMC Cole Coudersport $46.80 $2.94 – $62.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $17.40 $4.47 – $43.46
UPMC Hamot Erie $118.20 $4.47 – $12.29
UPMC Northwest Seneca $34.80 $4.10 – $6.06
UPMC Hanover Hanover $17.40 $4.47 – $7.23
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $39.00 $4.05 – $8.48
UPMC Jameson New Castle $25.80 $4.47 – $12.50

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