CT guidance for percutaneous drain w/catheter placement supervision & interpretation at UPMC Jameson
1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 111471575
$526.80
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.
$878.00
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.
$11.50 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $772.64 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.
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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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $11.50 | ↓ -98% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $19.25 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $19.77 | ↓ -96% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $22.75 | ↓ -96% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $24.32 | ↓ -95% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $29.82 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $107.81 | ↓ -80% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $211.18 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $270.42 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $313.00 | ↓ -41% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $388.27 | ↓ -26% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $409.72 | ↓ -22% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $439.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $658.50 | ↑ +25% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $664.72 | ↑ +26% |
| Humana | Commercial | $702.40 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $772.64 | ↑ +47% |
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CT guidance for percutaneous drain w/catheter placement supervision & interpretation at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $542.40 | $10.00 – $723.20 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $652.20 | $18.38 – $978.30 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,524.60 | $13.10 – $2,159.85 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,524.60 | $13.10 – $2,159.85 |
| UPMC East | Monroeville | $1,334.40 | $19.25 – $1,779.20 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $573.00 | $19.25 – $388.27 |
| UPMC Northwest | Seneca | $771.00 | $19.25 – $538.58 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,524.60 | $13.10 – $406.33 |