Counseling smoke cess interm >10mins at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$52.20

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.

$87.00

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.

$11.92 with Prime Net vs $115.00 with United Healthcare — 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 $11.92 ↓ -77%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $17.40 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $17.40 ↓ -67%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $24.55 ↓ -53%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $24.55 ↓ -53%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $25.13 ↓ -52%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $25.32 ↓ -51%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $26.33 ↓ -50%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $28.16 ↓ -46%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $28.21 ↓ -46%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $28.21 ↓ -46%
Humana Medicare $28.50 ↓ -45%
Aetna Medicare $29.73 ↓ -43%
Cigna Medicare $29.93 ↓ -43%
Geisinger Medicare $29.93 ↓ -43%
United Healthcare Medicare $30.50 ↓ -42%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $30.78 ↓ -41%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $32.94 ↓ -37%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $33.93 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $34.19 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $34.19 ↓ -35%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $39.69 ↓ -24%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $40.45 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $40.72 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $40.72 ↓ -22%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $45.60 ↓ -13%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $47.59 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $47.59 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $47.59 ↓ -9%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $56.55 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $56.97 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $60.90 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $64.46 ↑ +23%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $65.77 ↑ +26%
Cigna Commercial $67.86 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $73.95 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $80.16 ↑ +54%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $83.55 ↑ +60%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $89.07 ↑ +71%
United Healthcare Commercial $115.00 ↑ +120%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Counseling smoke cess interm >10mins at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $48.00 $19.33 – $64.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $48.00 $10.25 – $72.00
UPMC Cole Coudersport $84.60 $20.30 – $112.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $52.20 $17.40 – $73.95
UPMC Hamot Erie $48.00 $21.26 – $43.46
UPMC Northwest Seneca $48.00 $21.26 – $37.93
UPMC Hanover Hanover $52.20 $24.55 – $45.54
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $48.00 $21.26 – $53.29

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