Ghs aspiration bladder - needle at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$446.40
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.
$744.00
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.
$38.07 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $727.09 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $38.07 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $38.07 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $38.97 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $39.27 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $40.83 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $43.67 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $51.09 | ↓ -89% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $101.93 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $102.01 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $118.05 | ↓ -74% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $148.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $148.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $230.33 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $230.33 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Medicare | $232.66 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $242.66 | ↓ -46% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $244.29 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $244.29 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $248.95 | ↓ -44% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $251.27 | ↓ -44% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $290.16 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $292.39 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $292.39 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $345.96 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $348.19 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $348.19 | ↓ -22% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $372.26 | ↓ -17% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $406.97 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $406.97 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $406.97 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $483.60 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $487.17 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $520.80 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $562.46 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $580.32 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $632.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $654.38 | ↑ +47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $682.07 | ↑ +53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $727.09 | ↑ +63% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Ghs aspiration bladder - needle at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $431.40 | $31.48 – $771.51 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $446.40 | $38.07 – $632.40 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $446.40 | $38.07 – $371.74 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $621.00 | $32.98 – $250.42 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $446.40 | $38.07 – $373.74 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $528.60 | $32.98 – $250.42 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $446.40 | $38.07 – $373.14 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $688.20 | $32.98 – $104.27 |