Change g-tube to g-j perc at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$6,196.80
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.
$10,328.00
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.
$159.82 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $8,778.80 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.
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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $159.82 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $163.59 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $169.88 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $171.39 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $183.30 | ↓ -97% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $214.46 | ↓ -97% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,016.56 | ↓ -84% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $1,414.94 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,722.64 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,796.55 | ↓ -71% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,796.55 | ↓ -71% |
| Humana | Medicare | $1,814.70 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,892.73 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1,905.43 | ↓ -69% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $1,905.43 | ↓ -69% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,941.73 | ↓ -69% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,959.88 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $2,065.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $2,065.60 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,449.38 | ↓ -60% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $2,903.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,397.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $4,027.92 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $4,058.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $4,058.90 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $4,802.52 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $4,833.50 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $4,833.50 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $5,104.03 | ↓ -18% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $5,319.97 | ↓ -14% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $5,649.42 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $5,649.42 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $5,649.42 | ↓ -9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $5,671.12 | ↓ -8% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $6,713.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $6,762.77 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $7,229.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $7,807.97 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $8,778.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Change g-tube to g-j perc at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $4,110.00 | $125.84 – $5,480.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $6,196.80 | $169.88 – $8,778.80 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $7,895.40 | $138.42 – $10,527.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $4,036.20 | $138.42 – $2,630.42 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $3,861.60 | $138.42 – $1,898.98 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $6,196.80 | $159.82 – $2,899.50 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $6,196.80 | $159.82 – $2,915.17 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $4,423.20 | $138.42 – $1,953.23 |