App high cost ss t/a/l >100sq cm 1st 100sq cm at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$4,513.80

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.

$7,523.00

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.

$440.44 with UPMC Work Partners vs $10,944.60 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.

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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
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $440.44 ↓ -90%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,016.56 ↓ -77%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $1,030.65 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,031.18 ↓ -77%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $1,504.60 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $1,504.60 ↓ -67%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1,926.19 ↓ -57%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $2,933.97 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $2,956.54 ↓ -34%
Prime Net ACO $2,956.54 ↓ -34%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $3,467.14 ↓ -23%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $3,467.14 ↓ -23%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $3,498.20 ↓ -22%
Humana Medicare $3,502.16 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $3,520.76 ↓ -22%
Aetna Commercial $3,520.76 ↓ -22%
Aetna Medicare $3,652.75 ↓ -19%
Cigna Medicare $3,677.27 ↓ -19%
Geisinger Medicare $3,677.27 ↓ -19%
United Healthcare Medicare $3,747.31 ↓ -17%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $3,782.33 ↓ -16%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $4,115.08 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $4,115.08 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $4,115.08 ↓ -9%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $4,137.65 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $4,137.65 ↓ -8%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $4,889.95 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $4,926.06 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $5,266.10 ↑ +17%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $5,603.46 ↑ +24%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $5,687.39 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $6,394.55 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $9,850.18 ↑ +118%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $10,266.93 ↑ +127%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $10,944.60 ↑ +142%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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App high cost ss t/a/l >100sq cm 1st 100sq cm at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Hamot Erie $2,618.40 $420.87 – $5,076.39
UPMC Hanover Hanover $4,513.80 $440.44 – $5,595.71
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $3,868.20 $420.87 – $3,769.52
UPMC Jameson New Castle $3,441.60 $420.87 – $4,711.90
UPMC Lititz Lititz $4,513.80 $440.44 – $5,625.95
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $3,461.40 $420.87 – $3,839.33
UPMC McKeesport Mckeesport $3,120.60 $369.97 – $3,839.33
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $3,154.80 $420.87 – $3,839.33

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