Inst via cath agent pleurds at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$2,146.80
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.
$3,578.00
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.
$325.29 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $3,397.00 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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $325.29 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $479.13 | ↓ -78% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $490.19 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $585.53 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $585.53 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare | $591.44 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $616.87 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $621.01 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $621.01 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $632.84 | ↓ -71% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $638.76 | ↓ -70% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $715.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $715.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $946.30 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,016.56 | ↓ -53% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $1,395.42 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,406.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $1,406.15 | ↓ -35% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $1,663.48 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $1,663.77 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $1,674.50 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,674.50 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $1,733.87 | ↓ -19% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $1,848.31 | ↓ -14% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,957.17 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,957.17 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,957.17 | ↓ -9% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $1,967.90 | ↓ -8% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $1,967.90 | ↓ -8% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $2,325.70 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,342.87 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $2,504.60 | ↑ +17% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,504.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $2,704.97 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $3,041.30 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,397.00 | ↑ +58% |
| 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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Inst via cath agent pleurds at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $2,146.80 | $479.13 – $3,041.30 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $2,146.80 | $479.13 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $2,146.80 | $479.13 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $2,146.80 | $427.59 – $1,016.56 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $2,146.80 | $457.84 – $892.40 |
| WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital | Chambersburg | $3,580.80 | $104.00 – $3,222.72 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $721.00 | $205.80 – $1,262.86 |