CT thorax low dose for lung screening without contrast at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$190.20
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.
$317.00
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.
$43.43 with Prime Net vs $327.38 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $43.43 | ↓ -77% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $63.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $63.40 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $96.13 | ↓ -49% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $100.71 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $100.71 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare | $101.73 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $106.10 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $106.82 | ↓ -44% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $106.82 | ↓ -44% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $108.85 | ↓ -43% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $109.87 | ↓ -42% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $123.63 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $124.58 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $124.58 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $146.04 | ↓ -23% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $146.04 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $147.41 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $148.36 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $148.36 | ↓ -22% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $149.49 | ↓ -21% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $156.62 | ↓ -18% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $162.77 | ↓ -14% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $167.49 | ↓ -12% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $173.40 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $173.40 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $173.40 | ↓ -9% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $174.22 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $195.97 | ↑ +3% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $206.05 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $207.57 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $221.90 | ↑ +17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $233.31 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $239.65 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $247.26 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $269.45 | ↑ +42% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $280.00 | ↑ +47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $286.13 | ↑ +50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $298.23 | ↑ +57% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $317.92 | ↑ +67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $327.38 | ↑ +72% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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CT thorax low dose for lung screening without contrast at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $819.60 | $68.48 – $1,092.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $883.20 | $36.58 – $1,324.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $768.60 | $120.74 – $1,024.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $190.20 | $36.40 – $327.38 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $772.80 | $68.48 – $173.40 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $666.60 | $91.94 – $166.48 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $190.20 | $96.13 – $280.00 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $636.60 | $90.77 – $395.00 |