Warde analysis gene hfe common variants at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$378.60

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.

$631.00

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.

$64.71 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $536.35 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.

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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
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $64.71 ↓ -83%
Highmark BCBS of PA Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $64.71 ↓ -83%
Humana Medicare $65.36 ↓ -83%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $67.61 ↓ -82%
Aetna Medicare $68.17 ↓ -82%
Geisinger Medicare $68.63 ↓ -82%
Cigna Medicare $68.63 ↓ -82%
United Healthcare Medicare $69.94 ↓ -82%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $70.59 ↓ -81%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $71.34 ↓ -81%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $86.45 ↓ -77%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $90.60 ↓ -76%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $92.74 ↓ -76%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $93.46 ↓ -75%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $97.17 ↓ -74%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $103.91 ↓ -73%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $104.58 ↓ -72%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $121.58 ↓ -68%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $126.20 ↓ -67%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $126.20 ↓ -67%
Cigna Commercial $169.92 ↓ -55%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $183.83 ↓ -51%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $191.61 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $204.26 ↓ -46%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $239.79 ↓ -37%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $246.09 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $247.98 ↓ -35%
Aetna ACO $247.98 ↓ -35%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $293.42 ↓ -22%
Aetna Commercial $295.31 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $295.31 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $345.16 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $345.16 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $345.16 ↓ -9%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $410.15 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $413.18 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $441.70 ↑ +17%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $477.04 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $536.35 ↑ +42%

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Warde analysis gene hfe common variants at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $1,531.20 $64.60 – $587.20
UPMC Bedford Everett $1,590.60 $23.58 – $2,385.90
UPMC Cole Coudersport $474.60 $53.00 – $632.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $378.60 $64.71 – $536.35
UPMC East Monroeville $1,590.60 $64.60 – $2,120.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $2,381.40 $64.60 – $363.01
UPMC Northwest Seneca $2,381.40 $59.27 – $82.04
UPMC Hanover Hanover $378.60 $64.71 – $104.58

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