Insert/repl sq defib w/eltrd at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$48,933.60
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.
$81,556.00
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.
$922.97 with UPMC Work Partners vs $95,849.16 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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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| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $922.97 | ↓ -98% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $11,173.17 | ↓ -77% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $16,311.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $16,311.20 | ↓ -67% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $16,868.91 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $17,298.00 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $25,632.19 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $30,364.04 | ↓ -38% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $30,364.04 | ↓ -38% |
| Humana | Medicare | $30,670.75 | ↓ -37% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $31,806.84 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $31,989.59 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $32,051.51 | ↓ -34% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $32,051.51 | ↓ -34% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $32,204.29 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $32,204.29 | ↓ -34% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $32,817.70 | ↓ -33% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $33,124.41 | ↓ -32% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $37,923.54 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $38,168.21 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $38,168.21 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $44,611.13 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $44,611.13 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $44,611.13 | ↓ -9% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $44,855.80 | ↓ -8% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $44,855.80 | ↓ -8% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $49,073.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $53,011.40 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $53,402.87 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $57,089.20 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $57,089.20 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $61,656.34 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $69,322.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $86,264.55 | ↑ +76% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $89,914.37 | ↑ +84% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $95,849.16 | ↑ +96% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Insert/repl sq defib w/eltrd at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $40,435.80 | $401.56 – $53,914.40 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $48,933.60 | $922.97 – $69,322.60 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $31,258.80 | $405.38 – $41,678.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $34,910.40 | $401.56 – $44,457.34 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $48,933.60 | $922.97 – $49,005.49 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $48,933.60 | $922.97 – $49,270.19 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $2,995.20 | $405.38 – $33,623.56 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $48,933.60 | $327.29 – $49,190.16 |