Echocardiography doppler color flow mapping at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$418.20

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.

$697.00

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.

$21.12 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,907.00 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $21.12 ↓ -95%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $23.60 ↓ -94%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $23.60 ↓ -94%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $24.15 ↓ -94%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $25.31 ↓ -94%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $27.06 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $31.66 ↓ -92%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $95.49 ↓ -77%
Aetna Medicare $115.00 ↓ -73%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $139.40 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $139.40 ↓ -67%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $254.06 ↓ -39%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $271.83 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $273.92 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $273.92 ↓ -35%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $283.81 ↓ -32%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $324.11 ↓ -22%
Aetna Commercial $326.20 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $326.20 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $381.26 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $381.26 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $381.26 ↓ -9%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $453.05 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $456.40 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $487.90 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $526.93 ↑ +26%
Cigna Commercial $543.66 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $592.45 ↑ +42%
United Healthcare Commercial $1,907.00 ↑ +356%

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Echocardiography doppler color flow mapping at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $544.20 $16.12 – $725.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $383.40 $19.51 – $575.10
UPMC Cole Coudersport $105.60 $19.51 – $242.77
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $418.20 $6.20 – $556.23
UPMC East Monroeville $596.40 $20.44 – $795.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $500.40 $20.44 – $242.77
UPMC Hanover Hanover $418.20 $21.12 – $1,907.00
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $236.40 $19.51 – $242.77

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