Fine needle asp without image guide 10021 at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$1,056.00

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.

$1,760.00

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.

$79.04 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $9,539.00 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.

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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
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $79.04 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $80.91 ↓ -92%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $84.02 ↓ -92%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $84.77 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $90.66 ↓ -91%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $106.07 ↓ -90%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $171.04 ↓ -84%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $207.65 ↓ -80%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $241.12 ↓ -77%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $352.00 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $352.00 ↓ -67%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $378.38 ↓ -64%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $378.38 ↓ -64%
Humana Medicare $382.20 ↓ -64%
Aetna Medicare $398.63 ↓ -62%
Geisinger Medicare $401.31 ↓ -62%
Cigna Medicare $401.31 ↓ -62%
United Healthcare Medicare $408.95 ↓ -61%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $412.78 ↓ -61%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $611.52 ↓ -42%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $686.40 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $691.68 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $691.68 ↓ -35%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $818.40 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $823.68 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $823.68 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $962.72 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $962.72 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $962.72 ↓ -9%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,016.56 ↓ -4%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $1,074.98 ↑ +2%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $1,120.46 ↑ +6%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $1,144.00 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $1,152.45 ↑ +9%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $1,194.41 ↑ +13%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,232.00 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $1,330.56 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $1,496.00 ↑ +42%
Cigna Commercial $9,539.00 ↑ +803%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
United Healthcare Commercial not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Fine needle asp without image guide 10021 at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $501.00 $62.24 – $668.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $1,452.60 $65.35 – $2,178.90
UPMC Cole Coudersport $144.60 $30.21 – $2,325.85
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,056.00 $78.00 – $1,016.56
UPMC East Monroeville $978.60 $68.46 – $1,304.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $1,086.00 $68.46 – $554.00
UPMC Northwest Seneca $478.80 $68.46 – $399.94
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,056.00 $79.04 – $1,016.56

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