Inj, bupivacaine liposome at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$13.20
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.
$22.00
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.
$1.40 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $18.70 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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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $1.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | Medicare | $1.41 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1.47 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $1.48 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1.48 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $1.50 | ↓ -89% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1.51 | ↓ -89% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1.52 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $1.62 | ↓ -88% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1.81 | ↓ -86% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $2.26 | ↓ -83% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $3.01 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $3.97 | ↓ -70% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $4.13 | ↓ -69% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $4.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $4.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $4.41 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $7.06 | ↓ -47% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $7.06 | ↓ -47% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $7.06 | ↓ -47% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $8.58 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $8.65 | ↓ -34% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $8.65 | ↓ -34% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $8.96 | ↓ -32% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $10.23 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $10.30 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $10.30 | ↓ -22% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $13.55 | ↑ +3% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $14.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $14.41 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $15.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $16.63 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $17.16 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $18.70 | ↑ +42% |
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Inj, bupivacaine liposome at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $637.40 | $1.59 – $869.69 |
| WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital | Ephrata | $1,982.80 | $1.73 – $1,322.02 |
| WellSpan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital | York PA 17403 | $1,345.20 | $1.73 – $661.01 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $755.91 | $1.39 – $3.24 |
| WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital | Lebanon | $2,421.60 | $1.59 – $1,322.02 |
| WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital | Gettysburg | $1,586.20 | $1.73 – $661.01 |
| AHN WEXFORD HOSPITAL | WEXFORD | not published | $0.82 – $4.77 |
| GROVE CITY HOSPITAL | GROVE CITY | not published | $0.99 – $4.09 |