Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$85.20
Cash price 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.
$142.00
Gross charge 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.
$16.60 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $120.70 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.
Full explanation →
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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.
Full explanation →Payer ?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. Full explanation → |
Plan ?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. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $16.60 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $16.60 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare | $16.77 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $17.34 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $17.49 | ↓ -79% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $17.61 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $17.61 | ↓ -79% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $17.94 | ↓ -79% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $18.11 | ↓ -79% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $19.45 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $20.00 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $21.43 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $25.40 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $26.00 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $26.20 | ↓ -69% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $26.83 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $27.24 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $28.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $28.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $29.13 | ↓ -66% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $34.08 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $43.60 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $47.17 | ↓ -45% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $49.16 | ↓ -42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $52.41 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $55.38 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $55.81 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | ACO | $55.81 | ↓ -34% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $66.03 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $66.46 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $66.46 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $77.67 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $77.67 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $77.67 | ↓ -9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $84.39 | ↓ -1% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $92.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $92.98 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $99.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $107.35 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $120.70 | ↑ +42% |
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Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $154.80 | $16.57 – $206.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $83.40 | $6.05 – $125.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $115.20 | $10.90 – $153.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $85.20 | $16.60 – $96.05 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $250.80 | $16.57 – $334.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $340.20 | $16.57 – $32.42 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $102.00 | $15.21 – $23.00 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $85.20 | $16.60 – $27.24 |