Bronchial challenge at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$650.40
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.
$1,084.00
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.
$14.93 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $930.94 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $14.93 | ↓ -98% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $24.13 | ↓ -96% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $24.13 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $24.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $25.88 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $27.68 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $32.38 | ↓ -95% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $148.51 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $196.56 | ↓ -70% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $204.11 | ↓ -69% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $216.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $216.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $294.91 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $294.91 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | Medicare | $297.89 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $310.70 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $312.78 | ↓ -52% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $312.78 | ↓ -52% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $318.74 | ↓ -51% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $321.72 | ↓ -51% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $422.76 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $426.01 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $426.01 | ↓ -35% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $476.62 | ↓ -27% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $504.06 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $507.31 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $507.31 | ↓ -22% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $592.95 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $592.95 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $592.95 | ↓ -9% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $613.00 | ↓ -6% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $704.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $709.80 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $758.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $819.50 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $837.85 | ↑ +29% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $845.52 | ↑ +30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $873.29 | ↑ +34% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $921.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $930.94 | ↑ +43% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Bronchial challenge at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $335.40 | $11.40 – $447.20 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $114.60 | $19.95 – $195.04 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $650.40 | $14.93 – $921.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $624.00 | $20.90 – $375.76 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $520.20 | $20.90 – $311.72 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $650.40 | $14.93 – $475.97 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,082.40 | $20.90 – $320.63 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $5,345.40 | $13.11 – $371.10 |