Inj heparin, pfizer, 1000u at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$3.00
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.
$5.00
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.
$0.69 with Prime Net vs $6.46 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.
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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| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $0.69 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $0.83 | ↓ -72% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $1.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $1.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1.60 | ↓ -47% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1.60 | ↓ -47% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1.60 | ↓ -47% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $1.95 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1.97 | ↓ -34% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $1.97 | ↓ -34% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $2.04 | ↓ -32% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $2.33 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $2.34 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2.34 | ↓ -22% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $3.01 | ↑ +0% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $3.01 | ↑ +0% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $3.01 | ↑ +0% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $3.07 | ↑ +2% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3.08 | ↑ +3% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $3.25 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $3.27 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $3.31 | ↑ +10% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3.50 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $3.70 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $3.78 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $4.25 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $6.46 | ↑ +115% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Inj heparin, pfizer, 1000u at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3.00 | $0.25 – $4.25 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $3.00 | $3.01 – $32.17 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $3.00 | $3.01 – $32.17 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $3.00 | $0.12 – $32.17 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $3.00 | $0.15 – $5.31 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $4.86 | $2.43 – $2.43 |