Special teletx port plan at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$939.60

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.

$1,566.00

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.

$41.27 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 $41.27 ↓ -96%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $65.79 ↓ -93%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $65.79 ↓ -93%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $67.34 ↓ -93%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $70.55 ↓ -92%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $75.45 ↓ -92%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $88.28 ↓ -91%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $214.54 ↓ -77%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $313.20 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $313.20 ↓ -67%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $346.69 ↓ -63%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $346.69 ↓ -63%
Humana Medicare $350.19 ↓ -63%
Aetna Medicare $365.25 ↓ -61%
Cigna Medicare $367.70 ↓ -61%
Geisinger Medicare $367.70 ↓ -61%
United Healthcare Medicare $374.70 ↓ -60%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $378.21 ↓ -60%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $479.30 ↓ -49%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $560.30 ↓ -40%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $610.74 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $615.44 ↓ -34%
Prime Net ACO $615.44 ↓ -34%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $728.19 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $732.89 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $732.89 ↓ -22%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $736.12 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $856.60 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $856.60 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $856.60 ↓ -9%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $984.94 ↑ +5%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $1,017.90 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $1,025.42 ↑ +9%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $1,026.62 ↑ +9%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $1,094.38 ↑ +16%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $1,096.20 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $1,183.90 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $1,331.10 ↑ +42%
Cigna Commercial $1,761.44 ↑ +87%
United Healthcare Commercial $26,132.00 ↑ +2681%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Special teletx port plan at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,248.60 $31.50 – $1,664.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $939.60 $41.27 – $1,331.10
UPMC Northwest Seneca $1,515.00 $56.98 – $464.85
UPMC Lititz Lititz $939.60 $41.27 – $562.56
UPMC Magee Pittsburgh $1,035.60 $56.98 – $499.85
UPMC Memorial York $939.60 $41.27 – $561.63
UPMC Passavant-McCandless Pittsburgh $1,286.40 $56.98 – $581.22
UPMC Presbyterian Pittsburgh $1,078.80 $37.80 – $590.88

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