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Marker biop eviva buckle ss at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$1,213.20

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.

$2,022.00

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.

$2.19 with Prime Net vs $194.38 with UPMC Health Plan — 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
Prime Net Managed Medicare $2.19 ↓ -100%
Aetna Medicare $2.64 ↓ -100%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $3.20 ↓ -100%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $3.20 ↓ -100%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $5.17 ↓ -100%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $5.17 ↓ -100%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $5.17 ↓ -100%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $5.28 ↓ -100%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $5.28 ↓ -100%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $5.33 ↓ -100%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $6.08 ↓ -99%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $6.24 ↓ -99%
Aetna ACO $6.29 ↓ -99%
Prime Net ACO $6.29 ↓ -99%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $7.44 ↓ -99%
Prime Net GateKeeper $7.49 ↓ -99%
Aetna Commercial $7.49 ↓ -99%
United Healthcare Commercial $9.86 ↓ -99%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $10.40 ↓ -99%
Geisinger Commercial $10.48 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $11.20 ↓ -99%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $12.10 ↓ -99%
Cigna Commercial $12.48 ↓ -99%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $13.60 ↓ -99%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $194.38 ↓ -84%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp not published by hospital
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid not published by hospital

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Marker biop eviva buckle ss at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,213.80 $26.00 – $194.38
UPMC Bedford Everett $1,261.20 $119.89 – $567.90
UPMC Northwest Seneca $400.80 $13.25 – $235.21
UPMC Mercy Pittsburgh $149.40 $0.25 – $153.49
UPMC Muncy Muncy $216.60 $54.15 – $324.90
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $2,036.40 $13.25 – $282.06
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $3,051.60 $7.38 – $314.27
UPMC Somerset Somerset $1,213.20 $3.20 – $116.42

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