Glucose tolerance test (gtt) 3 specimens at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$65.40
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.
$109.00
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.
$7.03 with United Healthcare 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.
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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| United Healthcare | Commercial | $7.03 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $12.50 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $12.74 | ↓ -81% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $12.74 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare | $12.87 | ↓ -80% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $13.31 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $13.42 | ↓ -79% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $13.51 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | 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% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $15.88 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $16.25 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $16.38 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $17.02 | ↓ -74% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $18.21 | ↓ -72% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $20.59 | ↓ -69% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $21.30 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $21.80 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $21.80 | ↓ -67% |
| 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% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $42.84 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | 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% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $79.02 | ↑ +21% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $82.40 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $92.65 | ↑ +42% |
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Glucose tolerance test (gtt) 3 specimens at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $136.80 | $12.50 – $182.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $66.60 | $4.64 – $99.90 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $90.00 | $8.37 – $120.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $94.20 | $12.50 – $92.65 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $118.20 | $12.50 – $24.89 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $96.60 | $11.67 – $14.38 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $65.40 | $7.03 – $20.59 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $106.20 | $11.52 – $24.15 |