Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at UPMC Carlisle
361 Alexander Spring Road, Carlisle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1689107328
$100.20
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.
$167.00
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.
$8.88 with United Healthcare vs $141.95 with Multiplan — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $8.88 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $17.80 | ↓ -82% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage | $17.80 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare | $17.98 | ↓ -82% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $18.60 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Medicare | $18.75 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $18.88 | ↓ -81% |
| Geisinger | Medicare | $18.88 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $19.24 | ↓ -81% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $19.42 | ↓ -81% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $20.09 | ↓ -80% |
| Prime Net | Managed Medicare | $22.88 | ↓ -77% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $25.51 | ↓ -75% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $26.12 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $26.32 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) | Medicaid/CHIP | $27.36 | ↓ -73% |
| Keystone Autism Services | ACAP | $28.77 | ↓ -71% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $29.26 | ↓ -71% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Medicare Advantage | $33.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Medicare Advantage | $33.40 | ↓ -67% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $34.24 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $46.76 | ↓ -53% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue PPO | $50.57 | ↓ -50% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | CHIP - Managed Care | $52.71 | ↓ -47% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial | $56.19 | ↓ -44% |
| Prime Net | Legacy Commercial | $65.13 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | ACO | $65.63 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | ACO | $65.63 | ↓ -35% |
| Prime Net | NonGateKeeper | $77.66 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial | $78.16 | ↓ -22% |
| Prime Net | GateKeeper | $78.16 | ↓ -22% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $85.62 | ↓ -15% |
| Capital Blue Cross | CHIP | $91.35 | ↓ -9% |
| Keystone Health Plan | Commercial | $91.35 | ↓ -9% |
| Capital Blue Cross | Commercial | $91.35 | ↓ -9% |
| Wellspan Population Health | PPO | $108.55 | ↑ +8% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $109.35 | ↑ +9% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $116.90 | ↑ +17% |
| Prime Net | FH-Medical Rental | $126.25 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) | $141.95 | ↑ +42% |
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Warde 3400652 smear complex special stain ova/parasites at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $93.60 | $17.78 – $124.80 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $104.40 | $6.49 – $156.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $100.20 | $17.80 – $141.95 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $358.80 | $17.78 – $478.40 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $98.40 | $17.78 – $46.67 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $158.40 | $16.31 – $23.10 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $100.20 | $8.88 – $28.77 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $105.00 | $16.10 – $33.74 |