Change of ureter tube/stent at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$3,457.20
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.
$5,762.00
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.
$148.72 with UPMC Work Partners vs $6,124.10 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $148.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $789.39 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1,077.81 | ↓ -69% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $1,152.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $1,152.40 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,482.24 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,712.54 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,940.05 | ↓ -44% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,940.05 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare | $1,959.65 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $2,043.91 | ↓ -41% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $2,057.63 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $2,057.63 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $2,096.83 | ↓ -39% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $2,116.42 | ↓ -39% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $2,247.18 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $2,264.47 | ↓ -34% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $2,264.47 | ↓ -34% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $2,679.33 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $2,696.62 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,696.62 | ↓ -22% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $3,135.44 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $3,151.81 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $3,151.81 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $3,151.81 | ↓ -9% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $3,169.10 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3,169.10 | ↓ -8% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,397.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $3,745.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $3,772.96 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $4,033.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $4,356.07 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $4,897.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $5,511.71 | ↑ +59% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $5,744.91 | ↑ +66% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $6,124.10 | ↑ +77% |
| 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 of ureter tube/stent at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3,457.20 | $150.33 – $4,897.70 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $3,457.20 | $150.33 – $3,131.10 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $3,457.20 | $148.72 – $3,148.02 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,680.20 | $155.03 – $2,148.31 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $3,457.20 | $150.33 – $3,142.91 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $2,270.40 | $151.47 – $2,148.31 |
| UPMC Presbyterian | Pittsburgh | $4,240.80 | $151.47 – $2,148.31 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $3,457.20 | $142.12 – $2,109.06 |