Bone Age X-ray (hand and wrist) at UPMC Jameson

1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 111471575

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

$421.80

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.

$703.00

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.

$11.27 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $618.64 with National Provider Network — 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 $11.27 ↓ -97%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $18.23 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicaid $18.72 ↓ -96%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $21.54 ↓ -95%
Aetna of PA Medicare $22.88 ↓ -95%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $23.03 ↓ -95%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $23.17 ↓ -95%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $28.24 ↓ -93%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $32.94 ↓ -92%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $87.22 ↓ -79%
United Healthcare Medicare $101.38 ↓ -76%
Humana Medicare $101.38 ↓ -76%
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicare $105.66 ↓ -75%
UPMC Health Plan EPO Partners/Partners/Select $105.86 ↓ -75%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $109.48 ↓ -74%
PA Health & Wellness Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) $109.49 ↓ -74%
Cigna Medicare $109.49 ↓ -74%
AmeriHealth Caritas Medicare $109.49 ↓ -74%
Occunet Commercial $126.72 ↓ -70%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $141.51 ↓ -66%
Cigna Commercial $251.90 ↓ -40%
United Healthcare Commercial $313.00 ↓ -26%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $527.25 ↑ +25%
Humana Commercial $562.40 ↑ +33%
National Provider Network PPO $618.64 ↑ +47%
Tricare East Region not published by hospital —
US Family Health Plan Tricare Prime not published by hospital —

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Bone Age X-ray (hand and wrist) at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $148.80 $9.80 – $198.40
UPMC Bedford Everett $115.80 $17.40 – $173.70
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $262.80 $12.84 – $372.30
UPMC Cole Coudersport $145.80 $17.40 – $194.40
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $262.80 $12.84 – $372.30
UPMC East Monroeville $436.20 $18.23 – $581.60
UPMC Hamot Erie $260.40 $18.23 – $166.40
UPMC Northwest Seneca $145.80 $18.23 – $106.45

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