Aquatic exercise - group charge at UPMC Jameson

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Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Mar 6, 2026 · Ingested Aug 13, 2026

$66.60

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.

$111.00

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.

$8.14 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $172.00 with United Healthcare — 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
United Healthcare Community Plan for Families PA CHIP/PA Medicaid $8.14 ↓ -88%
Aetna of PA Medicare $12.24 ↓ -82%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $25.93 ↓ -61%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $36.42 ↓ -45%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $53.05 ↓ -20%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $55.50 ↓ -17%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $61.05 ↓ -8%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $61.05 ↓ -8%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $83.25 ↑ +25%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $84.70 ↑ +27%
Occunet Commercial $85.00 ↑ +28%
Humana Commercial $88.80 ↑ +33%
National Provider Network PPO $97.68 ↑ +47%
Cigna Commercial $145.55 ↑ +119%
United Healthcare Commercial $172.00 ↑ +158%

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Aquatic exercise - group charge at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $115.80 $25.48 – $154.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $75.00 $31.25 – $112.50
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $171.60 $9.27 – $387.00
UPMC Cole Coudersport $65.40 $18.36 – $87.20
UPMC East Monroeville $87.60 $25.73 – $116.80
UPMC Hamot Erie $73.80 $25.48 – $100.11
UPMC Northwest Seneca $80.40 $41.76 – $104.15
UPMC Hanover Hanover $49.80 $9.27 – $148.00

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