Ghs inhibitor screen at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$65.40

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.

$109.00

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.

$7.55 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $92.65 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 $7.55 ↓ -88%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $9.59 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $9.81 ↓ -85%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $9.89 ↓ -85%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $10.28 ↓ -84%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $11.00 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $12.74 ↓ -81%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $12.74 ↓ -81%
Humana Medicare $12.87 ↓ -80%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $12.87 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $13.31 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $13.42 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $13.51 ↓ -79%
Geisinger Medicare $13.51 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $13.77 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $13.90 ↓ -79%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $14.93 ↓ -77%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $20.59 ↓ -69%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $21.80 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $21.80 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Commercial $22.70 ↓ -65%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $32.20 ↓ -51%
Cigna Commercial $33.48 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $36.20 ↓ -45%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $37.73 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $40.22 ↓ -39%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $42.51 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $42.84 ↓ -34%
Prime Net ACO $42.84 ↓ -34%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $50.69 ↓ -22%
Aetna Commercial $51.01 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $51.01 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $59.62 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $59.62 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $59.62 ↓ -9%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $70.85 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $71.37 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $76.30 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $82.40 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $92.65 ↑ +42%

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Ghs inhibitor screen at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $142.20 $7.55 – $189.60
UPMC Bedford Everett $104.40 $4.64 – $156.60
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $65.40 $7.55 – $92.65
UPMC East Monroeville $118.20 $7.55 – $157.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $734.40 $7.55 – $14.50
UPMC Northwest Seneca $85.20 $8.30 – $13.51
UPMC Hanover Hanover $65.40 $7.55 – $20.59
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $112.80 $7.55 – $23.44

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