Brain flow imaging only at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$1,574.40
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.
$2,624.00
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.
$44.54 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $2,480.49 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 | $44.54 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $61.34 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $61.34 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $62.79 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $65.78 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $70.35 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $82.31 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $290.46 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $347.42 | ↓ -78% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $359.49 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $509.77 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $509.77 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare | $514.92 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $524.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $524.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $537.06 | ↓ -66% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $540.67 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $540.67 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $550.96 | ↓ -65% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $556.11 | ↓ -65% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $823.87 | ↓ -48% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $1,023.36 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,031.23 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $1,031.23 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $1,220.16 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,228.03 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $1,228.03 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,435.33 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,435.33 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,435.33 | ↓ -9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $1,448.26 | ↓ -8% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $1,509.54 | ↓ -4% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,609.18 | ↑ +2% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $1,705.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,718.20 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,836.80 | ↑ +17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,931.26 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,983.74 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $2,230.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $2,480.49 | ↑ +58% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Brain flow imaging only at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,574.40 | $44.54 – $2,230.40 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,574.40 | $44.54 – $822.74 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $575.40 | $53.13 – $616.63 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,574.40 | $44.54 – $827.18 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,574.40 | $44.54 – $943.72 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,557.00 | $43.52 – $289.64 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $1,574.40 | $39.10 – $513.18 |
| UPMC Wellsboro | Wellsboro | $1,882.40 | $43.52 – $277.55 |