Bone survey-lead poisoning at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$262.80

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.

$438.00

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.

$39.59 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $589.04 with Cigna — 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 Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $39.59 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $59.61 ↓ -77%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $59.61 ↓ -77%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $60.01 ↓ -77%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $61.02 ↓ -77%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $63.93 ↓ -76%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $68.37 ↓ -74%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $80.00 ↓ -70%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $87.60 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $87.60 ↓ -67%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $97.78 ↓ -63%
Premier Comp Solutions Worker's Comp $97.78 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $100.71 ↓ -62%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $100.71 ↓ -62%
Humana Medicare $101.73 ↓ -61%
Aetna Medicare $106.10 ↓ -60%
Geisinger Medicare $106.82 ↓ -59%
Cigna Medicare $106.82 ↓ -59%
United Healthcare Medicare $108.85 ↓ -59%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $109.87 ↓ -58%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $162.77 ↓ -38%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $170.82 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $172.13 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $172.13 ↓ -35%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $199.53 ↓ -24%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $203.67 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $204.98 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $204.98 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $239.59 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $239.59 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $239.59 ↓ -9%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $284.70 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $286.13 ↑ +9%
Geisinger Commercial $286.80 ↑ +9%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $298.23 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $306.60 ↑ +17%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $317.92 ↑ +21%
United Healthcare Commercial $322.37 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $331.13 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $372.30 ↑ +42%
Cigna Commercial $589.04 ↑ +124%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Bone survey-lead poisoning at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Bedford Everett $462.60 $36.58 – $693.90
UPMC Cole Coudersport $301.20 $49.29 – $401.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $262.80 $39.59 – $372.30
UPMC Hamot Erie $680.40 $51.63 – $166.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $420.60 $51.63 – $106.45
UPMC Hanover Hanover $262.80 $39.59 – $162.54
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $346.20 $51.63 – $136.62
UPMC Jameson New Castle $265.80 $34.75 – $126.72

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