Warde zinc at UPMC Carlisle

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

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

$57.60

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.

$96.00

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.

$11.28 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $81.60 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 Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage $11.28 ↓ -80%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $11.28 ↓ -80%
Humana Medicare $11.39 ↓ -80%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $11.78 ↓ -80%
Aetna Medicare $11.88 ↓ -79%
Geisinger Medicare $11.96 ↓ -79%
Cigna Medicare $11.96 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $12.19 ↓ -79%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $12.30 ↓ -79%
Prime Net Managed Medicare $13.15 ↓ -77%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $13.25 ↓ -77%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicaid $16.83 ↓ -71%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $17.23 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA Medicaid $17.36 ↓ -70%
United Healthcare Commercial $17.56 ↓ -70%
Health Partners Plans (Jefferson Health Plan) Medicaid/CHIP $18.05 ↓ -69%
Keystone Autism Services ACAP $18.22 ↓ -68%
Keystone Health Plan Medicare Advantage $19.20 ↓ -67%
Capital Blue Cross Medicare Advantage $19.20 ↓ -67%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $19.30 ↓ -66%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $22.58 ↓ -61%
Cigna Commercial $29.60 ↓ -49%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue PPO $32.04 ↓ -44%
Highmark BCBS of PA CHIP - Managed Care $33.39 ↓ -42%
Highmark BCBS of PA Commercial $35.59 ↓ -38%
Prime Net Legacy Commercial $37.44 ↓ -35%
Prime Net ACO $37.73 ↓ -34%
Aetna ACO $37.73 ↓ -34%
Prime Net NonGateKeeper $44.64 ↓ -23%
Aetna Commercial $44.93 ↓ -22%
Prime Net GateKeeper $44.93 ↓ -22%
Capital Blue Cross Commercial $52.51 ↓ -9%
Capital Blue Cross CHIP $52.51 ↓ -9%
Keystone Health Plan Commercial $52.51 ↓ -9%
Wellspan Population Health PPO $62.40 ↑ +8%
Geisinger Commercial $62.86 ↑ +9%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $67.20 ↑ +17%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $71.18 ↑ +24%
Prime Net FH-Medical Rental $72.58 ↑ +26%
Multiplan PPO (Includes PHCS and Humana as Payers) $81.60 ↑ +42%

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Warde zinc at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $183.60 $11.26 – $244.80
UPMC Bedford Everett $66.60 $4.11 – $99.90
UPMC Cole Coudersport $54.60 $7.40 – $72.80
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $57.60 $11.28 – $81.60
UPMC East Monroeville $169.20 $11.26 – $225.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $180.00 $11.26 – $22.03
UPMC Northwest Seneca $62.40 $10.33 – $15.24
UPMC Hanover Hanover $57.60 $11.28 – $18.22

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