Cath groshong MRI 8fr plstc port at UPMC Jameson
1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 111471575
$1,778.40
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.
$2,964.00
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.
$375.97 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,186.07 with UPMC Health Plan — 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 |
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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $375.97 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $608.81 | ↓ -66% |
| Occunet | Commercial | $700.20 | ↓ -61% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $770.22 | ↓ -57% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $770.22 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $814.57 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $912.91 | ↓ -49% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $1,050.30 | ↓ -41% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $1,167.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $1,750.50 | ↓ -2% |
| Humana | Commercial | $1,867.20 | ↑ +5% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $2,053.92 | ↑ +15% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $2,186.07 | ↑ +23% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | not published by hospital | — |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
| Aetna | Medicaid | not published by hospital | — |
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Cath groshong MRI 8fr plstc port at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $2,029.80 | $148.96 – $2,186.07 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $2,371.80 | $251.94 – $2,186.07 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $450.00 | $142.50 – $600.00 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,597.20 | $262.40 – $2,186.07 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $3,170.40 | $213.56 – $2,186.07 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $2,746.20 | $369.46 – $369.46 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $2,380.80 | $958.88 – $2,645.34 |
| UPMC Horizon-Greenville | Greenville | $2,491.20 | $941.59 – $2,186.07 |