Adh-sendout at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$123.00

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.

$205.00

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.

$28.09 with Prime Net vs $275.69 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 $28.09 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $33.60 ↓ -73%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $33.60 ↓ -73%
Humana Medicare $33.94 ↓ -72%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $35.10 ↓ -71%
Aetna Medicare $35.40 ↓ -71%
Geisinger Medicare $35.64 ↓ -71%
Cigna Medicare $35.64 ↓ -71%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $36.00 ↓ -71%
United Healthcare Medicare $36.32 ↓ -70%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $36.66 ↓ -70%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $41.00 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $41.00 ↓ -67%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $45.72 ↓ -63%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $46.80 ↓ -62%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $47.16 ↓ -62%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $49.03 ↓ -60%
United Healthcare Commercial $52.34 ↓ -57%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $52.44 ↓ -57%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $54.30 ↓ -56%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $61.35 ↓ -50%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $79.95 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $80.56 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $80.56 ↓ -35%
Cigna Commercial $88.24 ↓ -28%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $95.33 ↓ -22%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $95.46 ↓ -22%
Aetna Commercial $95.94 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $95.94 ↓ -22%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $99.50 ↓ -19%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $106.07 ↓ -14%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $112.14 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $112.14 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $112.14 ↓ -9%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $133.25 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $134.23 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $143.50 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $154.98 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $174.25 ↑ +42%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $275.69 ↑ +124%

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Adh-sendout at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $123.00 $33.60 – $275.69
UPMC Hamot Erie $430.80 $33.54 – $92.25
UPMC Northwest Seneca $236.40 $30.78 – $41.40
UPMC Hanover Hanover $123.00 $33.60 – $54.30
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $322.80 $30.39 – $63.69
UPMC Kane Kane $201.60 $33.54 – $146.49
UPMC Lititz Lititz $123.00 $33.60 – $54.30
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $321.00 $31.76 – $93.13

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