C-peptide at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$105.00

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.

$175.00

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.

$16.87 with United Healthcare vs $148.75 with Multiplan — 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 Commercial $16.87 ↓ -84%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $20.60 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $20.60 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $20.81 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $21.53 ↓ -79%
Aetna Medicare $21.70 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $21.85 ↓ -79%
Geisinger Medicare $21.85 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $22.27 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $22.47 ↓ -79%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $23.98 ↓ -77%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $28.75 ↓ -73%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $33.30 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $35.00 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $35.00 ↓ -67%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $36.51 ↓ -65%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $37.38 ↓ -64%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $37.66 ↓ -64%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $39.16 ↓ -63%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $41.88 ↓ -60%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $49.00 ↓ -53%
Cigna Commercial $54.12 ↓ -48%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $58.53 ↓ -44%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $61.01 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $65.03 ↓ -38%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $68.25 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $68.78 ↓ -34%
Aetna ACO $68.78 ↓ -34%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $81.38 ↓ -22%
Aetna Commercial $81.90 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $81.90 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $95.72 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $95.72 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $95.72 ↓ -9%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $108.08 ↑ +3%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $113.75 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $114.59 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $122.50 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $132.30 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $148.75 ↑ +42%

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C-peptide at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $197.40 $20.57 – $263.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $100.20 $7.51 – $150.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $142.20 $13.53 – $189.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $120.00 $20.60 – $148.75
UPMC East Monroeville $308.40 $20.57 – $411.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $315.00 $20.57 – $40.21
UPMC Northwest Seneca $102.60 $18.87 – $33.06
UPMC Hanover Hanover $105.00 $16.87 – $39.16

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