Valrubicin injection at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$168.60

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.

$281.00

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.

$38.50 with Prime Net vs $4,135.60 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.

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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
Prime Net Managed Medicare $38.50 ↓ -77%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $56.20 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $56.20 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $90.20 ↓ -47%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $90.20 ↓ -47%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $90.20 ↓ -47%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $109.59 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $110.43 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $110.43 ↓ -35%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $114.42 ↓ -32%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $130.66 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $131.51 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $131.51 ↓ -22%
United Healthcare Commercial $173.10 ↑ +3%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $182.65 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $184.00 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $196.70 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $212.44 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $238.85 ↑ +42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $1,310.12 ↑ +677%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $1,310.12 ↑ +677%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $1,323.35 ↑ +685%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1,323.35 ↑ +685%
Humana Medicare $1,323.35 ↑ +685%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1,323.35 ↑ +685%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $1,349.81 ↑ +701%
Aetna Medicare $1,380.25 ↑ +719%
Cigna Medicare $1,389.52 ↑ +724%
Geisinger Medicare $1,389.52 ↑ +724%
United Healthcare Medicare $1,415.98 ↑ +740%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $1,429.22 ↑ +748%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $1,455.68 ↑ +763%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1,627.71 ↑ +865%
Cigna Commercial $1,923.03 ↑ +1041%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $2,117.36 ↑ +1156%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $3,722.05 ↑ +2108%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $3,879.53 ↑ +2201%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $4,135.60 ↑ +2353%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital

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Valrubicin injection at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $168.60 $56.20 – $1,627.71
UPMC Hanover Hanover $168.60 $1,310.12 – $2,117.36
UPMC Lititz Lititz $168.60 $1,310.12 – $2,117.36
UPMC Memorial York $168.60 $561.31 – $2,117.36
UPMC Somerset Somerset $168.60 $681.72 – $1,323.35
Uniontown Hospital Uniontown $3,066.00 $1,247.05 – $2,905.63

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