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Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, without contrast) at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$1,741.80
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.
$2,903.00
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.
$65.08 with Prime Net vs $1,582.17 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $65.08 | ↓ -96% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $95.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $95.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $185.25 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | ACO | $186.68 | ↓ -89% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $186.68 | ↓ -89% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $220.88 | ↓ -87% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $222.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $222.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $228.92 | ↓ -87% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $228.92 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare | $231.23 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $241.17 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $242.79 | ↓ -86% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $242.79 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $247.42 | ↓ -86% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $249.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $259.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $259.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $259.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $308.75 | ↓ -82% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $311.03 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $332.50 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $349.60 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $350.31 | ↓ -80% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $359.10 | ↓ -79% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $369.97 | ↓ -79% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $403.75 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $410.46 | ↓ -76% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $410.46 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $420.16 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $440.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $470.77 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $550.80 | ↓ -68% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $650.36 | ↓ -63% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $677.87 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $722.62 | ↓ -59% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $1,004.63 | ↓ -42% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,004.63 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,224.77 | ↓ -30% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,582.17 | ↓ -9% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Brain MRA (blood vessel MRI, without contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,940.80 | $231.07 – $5,254.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,801.60 | $214.16 – $5,385.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $5,178.60 | $148.12 – $6,041.70 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,699.20 | $267.41 – $2,265.60 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,892.40 | $83.15 – $2,838.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,230.00 | $263.06 – $1,640.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,741.80 | $95.00 – $1,582.17 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,741.80 | $90.25 – $1,004.63 |