Alteplase 100 mg infusion from pyxis vial at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$5,280.00
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.
$8,800.00
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.
$12.06 with Prime Net vs $295.17 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $12.06 | ↓ -100% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $17.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $17.60 | ↓ -100% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $28.25 | ↓ -99% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $28.25 | ↓ -99% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $28.25 | ↓ -99% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $34.32 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | ACO | $34.58 | ↓ -99% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $34.58 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $35.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $40.92 | ↓ -99% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $41.18 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $41.18 | ↓ -99% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $54.21 | ↓ -99% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $57.20 | ↓ -99% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $57.62 | ↓ -99% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $61.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $66.53 | ↓ -99% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $74.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $93.51 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $93.51 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Medicare | $94.45 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $94.45 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $94.45 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $94.45 | ↓ -98% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $96.34 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $98.51 | ↓ -98% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $99.17 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $99.17 | ↓ -98% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $101.06 | ↓ -98% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $102.01 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $103.89 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $116.17 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $125.45 | ↓ -98% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $151.12 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $177.50 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $265.65 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $276.89 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $295.17 | ↓ -94% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Alteplase 100 mg infusion from pyxis vial at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $5,517.60 | $37.70 – $108.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $5,280.00 | $17.60 – $177.50 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $5,280.00 | $93.51 – $177.50 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $19,391.40 | $94.45 – $150.94 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $5,280.00 | $93.51 – $177.50 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $22,001.40 | $49.03 – $195.25 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $5,280.00 | $39.59 – $177.50 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $612.00 | $48.57 – $204.13 |