Cytopath smear other source at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$54.60
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.
$91.00
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.
$3.27 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $118.24 with Cigna — 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $3.27 | ↓ -94% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $12.47 | ↓ -77% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $12.50 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $15.88 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $16.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $17.02 | ↓ -69% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $18.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $18.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $18.21 | ↓ -67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $21.30 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $23.20 | ↓ -58% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $23.20 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare | $23.43 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $24.44 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $24.60 | ↓ -55% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $24.60 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $25.07 | ↓ -54% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $25.30 | ↓ -54% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $33.49 | ↓ -39% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $35.49 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $35.76 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $35.76 | ↓ -35% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $37.49 | ↓ -31% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $42.31 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $42.59 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $42.59 | ↓ -22% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $49.78 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $49.78 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $49.78 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $59.15 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $59.59 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $63.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $65.90 | ↑ +21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $68.69 | ↑ +26% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $68.80 | ↑ +26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $73.22 | ↑ +34% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $76.12 | ↑ +39% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $77.35 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $118.24 | ↑ +117% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $41.40 | $8.42 – $72.74 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $144.60 | $13.12 – $192.80 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $54.60 | $3.27 – $77.35 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $54.60 | $3.27 – $77.08 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | $163.80 | $12.71 – $203.24 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $54.60 | $3.27 – $76.12 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $67.20 | $9.53 – $77.54 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $54.60 | $3.27 – $122.87 |