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Upper Endoscopy (EGD, diagnostic) at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$1,509.00
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.
$2,515.00
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.
$159.03 with Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) vs $2,802.87 with Highmark BCBS of PA — 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 | $159.03 | ↓ -89% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $159.03 | ↓ -89% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $162.79 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $170.55 | ↓ -89% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $182.40 | ↓ -88% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $213.40 | ↓ -86% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $344.56 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $374.66 | ↓ -75% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $503.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $503.00 | ↓ -67% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $656.90 | ↓ -56% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $887.92 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $887.92 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Medicare | $896.89 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $935.46 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $941.73 | ↓ -38% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $941.73 | ↓ -38% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $959.67 | ↓ -36% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $968.64 | ↓ -36% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $980.85 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $988.39 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $988.39 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $1,169.47 | ↓ -23% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $1,177.02 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $1,177.02 | ↓ -22% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $1,375.70 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $1,375.70 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $1,375.70 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $1,435.02 | ↓ -5% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $1,634.75 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $1,646.82 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,713.43 | ↑ +14% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,760.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $1,901.34 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $1,961.70 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $2,137.75 | ↑ +42% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $2,522.59 | ↑ +67% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $2,629.32 | ↑ +74% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $2,802.87 | ↑ +86% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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Upper Endoscopy (EGD, diagnostic) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $1,895.40 | $137.74 – $2,685.15 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $2,281.20 | $137.74 – $3,041.60 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,310.60 | $137.74 – $2,695.70 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $1,675.80 | $125.22 – $2,234.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $1,214.40 | $131.48 – $1,821.60 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $878.40 | $131.48 – $1,171.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,909.80 | $159.03 – $2,137.75 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,509.00 | $159.03 – $2,188.05 |