Bowel imaging at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$1,228.80
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.
$2,048.00
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.
$58.95 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,934.72 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.
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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $58.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $95.25 | ↓ -92% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $95.25 | ↓ -92% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $97.50 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $102.15 | ↓ -92% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $109.25 | ↓ -91% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $127.81 | ↓ -90% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $280.58 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $380.56 | ↓ -69% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $380.56 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare | $384.40 | ↓ -69% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $384.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $400.93 | ↓ -67% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $403.62 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $403.62 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $409.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $409.60 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $411.31 | ↓ -67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $415.15 | ↓ -66% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $532.67 | ↓ -57% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $615.04 | ↓ -50% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $798.72 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $804.86 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $804.86 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $952.32 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $958.46 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $958.46 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $1,081.16 | ↓ -12% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,120.26 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,120.26 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,120.26 | ↓ -9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $1,126.91 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,201.29 | ↓ -2% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $1,331.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,341.03 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,433.60 | ↑ +17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,507.33 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,548.29 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $1,740.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,934.72 | ↑ +57% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Bowel imaging at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $392.40 | $45.00 – $523.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,179.00 | $78.75 – $1,572.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,228.80 | $58.95 – $1,740.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,580.40 | $82.50 – $2,107.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $681.60 | $82.50 – $546.54 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,228.80 | $58.95 – $614.19 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $587.40 | $82.50 – $1,126.99 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,228.80 | $58.95 – $617.50 |