Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$939.60

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.

$1,566.00

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.

$96.72 with Prime Net vs $1,515.58 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.

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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
Prime Net Managed Medicare $96.72 ↓ -90%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $141.20 ↓ -85%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $141.20 ↓ -85%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $226.63 ↓ -76%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $226.63 ↓ -76%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $226.63 ↓ -76%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $266.73 ↓ -72%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $275.34 ↓ -71%
Aetna ACO $277.46 ↓ -70%
Prime Net ACO $277.46 ↓ -70%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $287.48 ↓ -69%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $328.29 ↓ -65%
Prime Net GateKeeper $330.41 ↓ -65%
Aetna Commercial $330.41 ↓ -65%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $388.30 ↓ -59%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $388.30 ↓ -59%
United Healthcare Commercial $434.90 ↓ -54%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $458.90 ↓ -51%
Geisinger Commercial $462.29 ↓ -51%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $480.12 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $480.12 ↓ -49%
Humana Medicare $484.97 ↓ -48%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $494.20 ↓ -47%
Aetna Medicare $505.82 ↓ -46%
Geisinger Medicare $509.22 ↓ -46%
Cigna Medicare $509.22 ↓ -46%
United Healthcare Medicare $518.92 ↓ -45%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $523.77 ↓ -44%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $533.74 ↓ -43%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $600.10 ↓ -36%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $775.95 ↓ -17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,241.02 ↑ +32%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $1,364.03 ↑ +45%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $1,421.74 ↑ +51%
Cigna Commercial $1,507.99 ↑ +60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $1,515.58 ↑ +61%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Calcitonin (salmon) 200 unit/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $8,582.40 $82.85 – $8,582.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $9,437.60 $174.98 – $10,617.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $4,067.40 $59.60 – $172.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $939.60 $137.94 – $1,241.02
UPMC East Monroeville $9,437.60 $83.64 – $9,437.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $10,588.80 $82.85 – $1,748.83
UPMC Northwest Seneca $9,437.60 $215.02 – $523.77
UPMC Hanover Hanover $939.60 $480.12 – $1,241.02

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