Strapping of elbow or wrist 29260 at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$204.60
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.
$341.00
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.
$39.85 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $302.23 with UPMC Health Plan — 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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| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $39.85 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $39.85 | ↓ -81% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $40.79 | ↓ -80% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $41.11 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $42.74 | ↓ -79% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $45.71 | ↓ -78% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $46.72 | ↓ -77% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $53.48 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $56.25 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $56.25 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare | $56.82 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $59.26 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $59.66 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $59.66 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $60.80 | ↓ -70% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $61.37 | ↓ -70% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $68.20 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $68.20 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $71.16 | ↓ -65% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $90.91 | ↓ -56% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $132.99 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $134.01 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $134.01 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $158.56 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $159.59 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $159.59 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $159.81 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $166.57 | ↓ -19% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $177.57 | ↓ -13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $186.53 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $186.53 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $186.53 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $221.65 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $223.29 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $238.70 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $257.80 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $265.98 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $289.85 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $302.23 | ↑ +48% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $204.60 | $39.85 – $90.78 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $204.60 | $39.85 – $91.28 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $204.60 | $39.85 – $91.14 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $516.60 | $34.52 – $92.94 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $471.00 | $34.52 – $75.69 |