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Rapid Strep Test at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$93.00
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.
$155.00
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.
$6.30 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $131.75 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.
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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| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $6.30 | ↓ -93% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $8.00 | ↓ -91% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $8.19 | ↓ -91% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $8.25 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $8.58 | ↓ -91% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $9.18 | ↓ -90% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $10.74 | ↓ -88% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $16.36 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $16.36 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare | $16.53 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $17.10 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $17.24 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $17.36 | ↓ -81% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $17.36 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $17.69 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $17.85 | ↓ -81% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $21.23 | ↓ -77% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $26.45 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $29.47 | ↓ -68% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $31.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $31.00 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $35.67 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $42.96 | ↓ -54% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $46.49 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $48.46 | ↓ -48% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $51.66 | ↓ -44% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $60.45 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $60.91 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $60.91 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $72.08 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $72.54 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $72.54 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $84.78 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $84.78 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $84.78 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $100.75 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $101.49 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $108.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $117.18 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $131.75 | ↑ +42% |
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Rapid Strep Test at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $34.80 | $6.30 – $46.40 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $62.40 | $6.93 – $88.40 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $67.80 | $6.30 – $90.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $41.40 | $5.96 – $62.10 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $59.40 | $6.62 – $79.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $93.00 | $6.30 – $131.75 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $93.00 | $6.30 – $134.85 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $62.40 | $6.30 – $88.40 |