Assay of thiocyanate at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$42.60
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.
$71.00
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.
$4.80 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $60.35 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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $4.80 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $6.10 | ↓ -86% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $6.24 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $6.29 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $6.54 | ↓ -85% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $6.99 | ↓ -84% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $8.18 | ↓ -81% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $9.73 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $11.51 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $11.51 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare | $11.63 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $12.02 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $12.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $12.21 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $12.21 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $12.44 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $12.56 | ↓ -71% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $14.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $14.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $18.61 | ↓ -56% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $27.69 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $27.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $27.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $30.24 | ↓ -29% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $31.45 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $32.71 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $33.02 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $33.23 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $33.23 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $34.09 | ↓ -20% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $36.34 | ↓ -15% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $38.84 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $38.84 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $38.84 | ↓ -9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $42.06 | ↓ -1% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $46.15 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $46.49 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $49.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $53.68 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $60.35 | ↑ +42% |
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Assay of thiocyanate at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $42.60 | $4.80 – $60.35 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $72.60 | $5.28 – $12.21 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $42.60 | $4.80 – $18.61 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $42.60 | $4.80 – $18.61 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $42.60 | $4.80 – $33.64 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $226.20 | $5.28 – $12.29 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $72.00 | $4.80 – $13.36 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $42.60 | $5.28 – $11.63 |