Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$1,378.20
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.
$2,297.00
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.
$187.90 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $1,952.45 with Multiplan — 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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $187.90 | ↓ -86% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $294.41 | ↓ -79% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $314.69 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $338.22 | ↓ -75% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $338.22 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare | $341.64 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $356.33 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $358.72 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $358.72 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $365.55 | ↓ -73% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $368.97 | ↓ -73% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $459.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $459.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $546.62 | ↓ -60% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $895.83 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $902.72 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $902.72 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $960.90 | ↓ -30% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $1,001.55 | ↓ -27% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,067.66 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $1,068.11 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,075.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $1,075.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,256.46 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,256.46 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,256.46 | ↓ -9% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,263.35 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,263.35 | ↓ -8% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,276.30 | ↓ -7% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $1,493.05 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,504.08 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,607.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,736.53 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,791.66 | ↑ +30% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,907.00 | ↑ +38% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $1,952.45 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Echocardiography transthoracic 2d followup/limited w/contrast or without & w/contrast at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $387.00 | $315.29 – $1,276.30 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $556.80 | $122.85 – $835.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,378.20 | $294.41 – $1,952.45 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $487.20 | $267.96 – $649.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $489.00 | $272.00 – $566.90 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $691.20 | $308.78 – $367.72 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,378.20 | $294.41 – $1,276.30 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $1,753.20 | $304.83 – $638.91 |