Ghs nerve block suprascapular at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

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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.

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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.

$44.45 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $3,397.00 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 $44.45 —
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $45.50 —
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $47.25 —
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $47.67 —
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $50.98 —
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $59.65 —
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $175.58 —
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $637.34 —
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $655.86 —
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $655.86 —
Humana Medicare $662.48 —
Aetna Medicare $690.97 —
Cigna Medicare $695.60 —
Geisinger Medicare $695.60 —
United Healthcare Medicare $708.85 —
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $715.48 —
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $1,016.56 —
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $1,059.97 —
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $1,863.29 —
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $1,942.13 —
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $2,070.32 —
Cigna Commercial $3,397.00 —
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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Ghs nerve block suprascapular at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,085.40 $35.00 – $1,447.20
UPMC Cole Coudersport $166.80 $36.75 – $222.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $1,976.40 $44.45 – $2,799.90
UPMC East Monroeville $987.60 $38.50 – $1,316.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $1,108.80 $38.50 – $960.26
UPMC Hanover Hanover $1,976.40 $44.45 – $1,058.50
UPMC Horizon-Greenville Greenville $908.40 $38.50 – $713.05
UPMC Jameson New Castle $908.40 $38.50 – $892.40

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