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Shoulder MRI (with contrast) at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$2,713.80
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.
$4,523.00
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.
$403.15 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $3,844.55 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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $403.15 | ↓ -85% |
| OneCall | Worker's Comp | $450.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $486.41 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $486.41 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $497.90 | ↓ -82% |
| Premier Comp Solutions | Worker's Comp | $500.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $521.65 | ↓ -81% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $557.88 | ↓ -79% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $619.65 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $652.71 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $746.29 | ↓ -73% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $904.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $904.60 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $1,161.43 | ↓ -57% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,591.30 | ↓ -41% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $1,763.97 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $1,777.54 | ↓ -34% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $1,777.54 | ↓ -34% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $2,103.20 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $2,116.76 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $2,116.76 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $2,474.08 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $2,474.08 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $2,474.08 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $2,939.95 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $2,961.66 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $3,166.10 | ↑ +17% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $3,328.93 | ↑ +23% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $3,419.39 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $3,578.07 | ↑ +32% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $3,844.55 | ↑ +42% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Shoulder MRI (with contrast) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $4,621.20 | $441.61 – $6,546.70 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $5,074.20 | $437.75 – $6,765.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,948.80 | $201.09 – $2,273.60 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $4,192.80 | $443.23 – $5,939.80 |
| UPMC Jameson | New Castle | $3,155.40 | $327.20 – $4,365.68 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $2,713.80 | $327.20 – $3,844.55 |
| UPMC McKeesport | Mckeesport | $4,936.20 | $449.34 – $6,992.95 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,119.20 | $425.00 – $2,825.60 |