Collection blood specimen from completely implantable venous access device at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$155.40
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.
$259.00
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.
$32.53 with UPMC Work Partners vs $385.36 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 | $32.53 | ↓ -79% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $35.48 | ↓ -77% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $51.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $51.80 | ↓ -67% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $67.82 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $92.79 | ↓ -40% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $101.01 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $101.79 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | ACO | $101.79 | ↓ -34% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $120.44 | ↓ -22% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $120.96 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $121.21 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $121.21 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $122.08 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $122.08 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Medicare | $123.31 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $128.61 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $129.48 | ↓ -17% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $129.48 | ↓ -17% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $131.94 | ↓ -15% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $133.17 | ↓ -14% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $141.67 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $141.67 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $141.67 | ↓ -9% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $142.45 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $142.45 | ↓ -8% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $168.35 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $169.59 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $181.30 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $195.80 | ↑ +26% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $197.30 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $202.02 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $220.15 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $346.82 | ↑ +123% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $361.50 | ↑ +133% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $385.36 | ↑ +148% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Collection blood specimen from completely implantable venous access device at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $50.40 | $31.08 – $132.72 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $189.00 | $31.08 – $283.50 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $71.40 | $31.08 – $98.03 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $155.40 | $32.53 – $220.15 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $156.60 | $31.08 – $208.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $158.40 | $31.08 – $161.87 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $72.00 | $31.08 – $132.72 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $155.40 | $32.53 – $197.02 |