Tissue culture placenta at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$543.00
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.
$905.00
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.
$123.98 with Prime Net vs $771.23 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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| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $123.98 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $148.80 | ↓ -73% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $148.80 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare | $150.30 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $155.46 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $156.76 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $157.81 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $157.81 | ↓ -71% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $160.82 | ↓ -70% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $162.32 | ↓ -70% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $181.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $181.00 | ↓ -67% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $189.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $240.03 | ↓ -56% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $240.48 | ↓ -56% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $245.70 | ↓ -55% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $247.59 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $257.42 | ↓ -53% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $275.30 | ↓ -49% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $322.09 | ↓ -41% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $352.95 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $355.67 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | ACO | $355.67 | ↓ -34% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $390.80 | ↓ -28% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $420.82 | ↓ -23% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $422.73 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $423.54 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $423.54 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $440.62 | ↓ -19% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $469.70 | ↓ -13% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $495.04 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $495.04 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $495.04 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $588.25 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $592.59 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $633.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $684.18 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $769.25 | ↑ +42% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $771.23 | ↑ +42% |
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Tissue culture placenta at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $543.00 | $148.80 – $771.23 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,551.00 | $148.55 – $273.13 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $543.00 | $148.80 – $257.42 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $543.00 | $148.80 – $257.42 |
| UPMC Magee | Pittsburgh | $688.80 | $140.67 – $322.09 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $543.00 | $155.46 – $1,065.24 |
| UPMC Mercy | Pittsburgh | $1,024.20 | $125.29 – $273.13 |
| UPMC Somerset | Somerset | $543.00 | $148.55 – $262.69 |