Initiation & management bipap/cpap initial day at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$627.00

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.

$1,045.00

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.

$44.88 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $888.25 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $44.88 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $107.01 ↓ -83%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $143.16 ↓ -77%
United Healthcare Commercial $163.00 ↓ -74%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $176.29 ↓ -72%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $192.62 ↓ -69%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $192.62 ↓ -69%
Humana Medicare $194.57 ↓ -69%
Aetna Medicare $202.94 ↓ -68%
Geisinger Medicare $204.30 ↓ -67%
Cigna Medicare $204.30 ↓ -67%
United Healthcare Medicare $208.19 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $209.00 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $209.00 ↓ -67%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $210.14 ↓ -66%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $311.31 ↓ -50%
Cigna Commercial $387.00 ↓ -38%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $407.55 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $410.69 ↓ -34%
Prime Net ACO $410.69 ↓ -34%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $485.93 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $489.06 ↓ -22%
Aetna Commercial $489.06 ↓ -22%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $527.58 ↓ -16%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $547.25 ↓ -13%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $570.40 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $571.62 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $571.62 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $571.62 ↓ -9%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $574.75 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $574.75 ↓ -8%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $608.05 ↓ -3%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $679.25 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $684.27 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $731.50 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $790.02 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $888.25 ↑ +42%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Initiation & management bipap/cpap initial day at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $690.60 $167.27 – $920.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $519.60 $69.96 – $779.40
UPMC Cole Coudersport $393.60 $39.06 – $524.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $627.00 $44.88 – $888.25
UPMC East Monroeville $866.40 $138.25 – $1,155.20
UPMC Hamot Erie $1,571.40 $95.56 – $273.12
UPMC Northwest Seneca $428.40 $161.96 – $209.42
UPMC Hanover Hanover $627.00 $44.88 – $527.58

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