Removal of foot lesion at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$5,833.80
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.
$9,723.00
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.
$196.22 with AmeriHealth Caritas vs $8,264.55 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 | $196.22 | ↓ -97% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $196.22 | ↓ -97% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $200.85 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $210.43 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $225.04 | ↓ -96% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $263.30 | ↓ -95% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $714.91 | ↓ -88% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $1,160.66 | ↓ -80% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $1,332.05 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,515.67 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $1,515.67 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Medicare | $1,530.98 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $1,596.81 | ↓ -73% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $1,607.53 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $1,607.53 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $1,638.15 | ↓ -72% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $1,653.46 | ↓ -72% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $1,944.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $1,944.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $2,449.57 | ↓ -58% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,655.97 | ↓ -54% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $3,791.97 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $3,821.14 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | ACO | $3,821.14 | ↓ -34% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $4,306.03 | ↓ -26% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $4,488.22 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $4,521.19 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $4,550.36 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $4,550.36 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $4,784.47 | ↓ -18% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $5,318.48 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $5,318.48 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $5,318.48 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $6,319.95 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $6,366.62 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $6,806.10 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $7,350.59 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $8,264.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Removal of foot lesion at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $628.80 | $162.22 – $1,192.92 |
| Uniontown Hospital | Uniontown | $1,848.00 | $169.95 – $3,237.13 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | not published | $154.50 – $1,647.86 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | not published | $208.57 – $5,805.45 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | not published | $169.95 – $1,678.38 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | not published | $169.95 – $2,219.16 |
| UPMC Kane | Kane | not published | $169.95 – $1,932.70 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | not published | $196.22 – $2,459.41 |