Plethysmography lung volumes/airway resistance at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$762.60
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.
$1,271.00
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.
$39.88 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $1,080.35 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.
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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $39.88 | ↓ -95% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $50.88 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $50.88 | ↓ -93% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $52.08 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $54.56 | ↓ -93% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $58.35 | ↓ -92% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $68.27 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $77.29 | ↓ -90% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $174.13 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $223.05 | ↓ -71% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $254.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $254.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $294.91 | ↓ -61% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $294.91 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | Medicare | $297.89 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $310.70 | ↓ -59% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $312.78 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $312.78 | ↓ -59% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $318.74 | ↓ -58% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $321.72 | ↓ -58% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $476.62 | ↓ -38% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $495.69 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $499.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $499.50 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $591.01 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $594.83 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $594.83 | ↓ -22% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $613.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $695.24 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $695.24 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $695.24 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $826.15 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $832.25 | ↑ +9% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $837.85 | ↑ +10% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $873.29 | ↑ +15% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $889.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $930.94 | ↑ +22% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $960.88 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $991.38 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $1,080.35 | ↑ +42% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Plethysmography lung volumes/airway resistance at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $153.60 | $30.44 – $204.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $121.80 | $11.64 – $73.86 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $762.60 | $39.88 – $327.76 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $513.00 | $34.68 – $684.00 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $163.80 | $34.35 – $375.76 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $169.20 | $44.07 – $311.72 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $762.60 | $39.88 – $475.97 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $285.00 | $44.07 – $320.63 |