Radiation treatment aid(s) at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$501.00

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.

$835.00

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.

$22.23 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $26,132.00 with United Healthcare — 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $22.23 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $74.57 ↓ -85%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $74.57 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $76.34 ↓ -85%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $79.98 ↓ -84%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $85.53 ↓ -83%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $100.07 ↓ -80%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $114.39 ↓ -77%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $125.74 ↓ -75%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $125.74 ↓ -75%
Humana Medicare $127.01 ↓ -75%
Aetna Medicare $132.47 ↓ -74%
Cigna Medicare $133.36 ↓ -73%
Geisinger Medicare $133.36 ↓ -73%
United Healthcare Medicare $135.90 ↓ -73%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $137.17 ↓ -73%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $167.00 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $167.00 ↓ -67%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $203.22 ↓ -59%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $279.56 ↓ -44%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $325.65 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $328.15 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $328.15 ↓ -35%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $357.23 ↓ -29%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $372.34 ↓ -26%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $388.27 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $390.78 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $390.78 ↓ -22%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $396.92 ↓ -21%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $412.94 ↓ -18%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $456.75 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $456.75 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $456.75 ↓ -9%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $542.75 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $546.76 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $584.50 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $631.26 ↑ +26%
Cigna Commercial $665.27 ↑ +33%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $709.75 ↑ +42%
United Healthcare Commercial $26,132.00 ↑ +5116%
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital
Tricare East Region not published by hospital

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Radiation treatment aid(s) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $501.00 $22.23 – $709.75
UPMC Northwest Seneca $823.20 $64.59 – $270.89
UPMC Lititz Lititz $501.00 $22.23 – $279.56
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,216.20 $64.59 – $290.62
UPMC Memorial York $501.00 $22.23 – $283.49
UPMC Somerset Somerset $501.00 $19.52 – $267.13
Uniontown Hospital Uniontown $252.50 $18.67 – $270.59

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