Mayo thyroglobulin at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$81.00

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.

$135.00

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.

$15.90 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $114.75 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.

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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
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $15.90 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $15.90 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $16.06 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $16.61 ↓ -79%
Aetna Medicare $16.75 ↓ -79%
Geisinger Medicare $16.86 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $16.86 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $17.18 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $17.34 ↓ -79%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $18.50 ↓ -77%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $21.76 ↓ -73%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $25.70 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $27.00 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $27.00 ↓ -67%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $27.64 ↓ -66%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $28.29 ↓ -65%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $28.51 ↓ -65%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $29.64 ↓ -63%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $31.70 ↓ -61%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $37.08 ↓ -54%
Cigna Commercial $41.76 ↓ -48%
United Healthcare Commercial $42.13 ↓ -48%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $45.17 ↓ -44%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $47.08 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $50.19 ↓ -38%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $52.65 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $53.05 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $53.05 ↓ -35%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $62.77 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $63.18 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $63.18 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $73.84 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $73.84 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $73.84 ↓ -9%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $83.50 ↑ +3%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $87.75 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $88.40 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $94.50 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $102.06 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $114.75 ↑ +42%

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Mayo thyroglobulin at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $134.40 $15.88 – $179.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $106.20 $5.79 – $159.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $75.00 $10.44 – $100.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $81.00 $15.90 – $114.75
UPMC East Monroeville $244.80 $15.88 – $326.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $250.20 $15.88 – $31.66
UPMC Northwest Seneca $108.60 $14.56 – $25.02
UPMC Hanover Hanover $81.00 $15.90 – $29.64

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