Alpha-fetoprotein afp-l3 frac & total at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$326.40

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.

$544.00

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.

$24.85 with United Healthcare vs $792.68 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
United Healthcare Commercial $24.85 ↓ -92%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $63.77 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $63.77 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $64.41 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $66.62 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $67.18 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $67.63 ↓ -79%
Geisinger Medicare $67.63 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $68.92 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $69.56 ↓ -79%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $70.82 ↓ -78%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $74.53 ↓ -77%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $89.94 ↓ -72%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $92.07 ↓ -72%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $92.77 ↓ -72%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $96.46 ↓ -70%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $103.06 ↓ -68%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $103.16 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $108.80 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $108.80 ↓ -67%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $120.69 ↓ -63%
Cigna Commercial $167.48 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $181.16 ↓ -44%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $188.82 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $201.29 ↓ -38%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $212.16 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $213.79 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $213.79 ↓ -35%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $252.96 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $254.59 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $254.59 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $297.57 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $297.57 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $297.57 ↓ -9%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $353.60 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $356.21 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $380.80 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $411.26 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $462.40 ↑ +42%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $792.68 ↑ +143%

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Alpha-fetoprotein afp-l3 frac & total at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,284.00 $63.66 – $1,712.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $1,509.60 $23.24 – $2,264.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $326.40 $63.77 – $792.68
UPMC East Monroeville $1,293.00 $63.66 – $1,724.00
UPMC Hamot Erie $903.60 $63.66 – $167.27
UPMC Northwest Seneca $570.00 $58.41 – $81.44
UPMC Hanover Hanover $326.40 $24.85 – $103.06
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $1,424.40 $57.67 – $120.87

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