Explore/treat finger joint at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$4,131.00

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.

$6,885.00

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.

$199.39 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $5,852.25 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.

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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
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $199.39 ↓ -95%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $199.39 ↓ -95%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $204.10 ↓ -95%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $213.83 ↓ -95%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $228.69 ↓ -94%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $267.56 ↓ -94%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $748.01 ↓ -82%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $774.82 ↓ -81%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $943.25 ↓ -77%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $1,377.00 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $1,377.00 ↓ -67%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $1,515.67 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $1,515.67 ↓ -63%
Humana Medicare $1,530.98 ↓ -63%
Aetna Medicare $1,596.81 ↓ -61%
Cigna Medicare $1,607.53 ↓ -61%
Geisinger Medicare $1,607.53 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,638.15 ↓ -60%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,653.46 ↓ -60%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $2,449.57 ↓ -41%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $2,685.15 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $2,705.80 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $2,705.80 ↓ -35%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $3,201.53 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $3,222.18 ↓ -22%
Aetna Commercial $3,222.18 ↓ -22%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $3,269.62 ↓ -21%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $3,766.09 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $3,766.09 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $3,766.09 ↓ -9%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $4,306.03 ↑ +4%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $4,475.25 ↑ +8%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $4,488.22 ↑ +9%
Geisinger Commercial $4,508.30 ↑ +9%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $4,784.47 ↑ +16%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $4,819.50 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $5,205.06 ↑ +26%
Cigna Commercial $5,370.30 ↑ +30%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $5,852.25 ↑ +42%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
United Healthcare Commercial not published by hospital

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