Neurolysis celiac plexus at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$3,025.20
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.
$5,042.00
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.
$93.34 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $5,035.00 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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $93.34 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $95.55 | ↓ -97% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $99.22 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $100.11 | ↓ -97% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $107.06 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $125.26 | ↓ -96% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $401.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $690.75 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $843.15 | ↓ -72% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $843.15 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Medicare | $851.67 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $888.29 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $894.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $894.25 | ↓ -70% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $911.29 | ↓ -70% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $919.80 | ↓ -70% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $1,008.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $1,008.40 | ↓ -67% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,016.56 | ↓ -66% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $1,362.67 | ↓ -55% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $1,966.38 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $1,981.51 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,981.51 | ↓ -34% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,314.93 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $2,344.53 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,359.66 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $2,359.66 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $2,395.41 | ↓ -21% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $2,496.76 | ↓ -17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,661.55 | ↓ -12% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2,757.97 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2,757.97 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2,757.97 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $3,277.30 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $3,301.50 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,529.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $3,811.75 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $4,285.70 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $5,035.00 | ↑ +66% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Neurolysis celiac plexus at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $3,025.20 | $99.22 – $4,285.70 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $4,618.20 | $80.85 – $1,234.49 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $3,025.20 | $93.34 – $1,360.78 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $3,025.20 | $93.34 – $1,368.14 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $4,176.60 | $80.85 – $916.68 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $3,025.20 | $93.34 – $1,365.92 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $3,417.00 | $80.85 – $933.66 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $3,557.40 | $80.85 – $933.66 |