Cyanocobalamin (vit b-12) 1,000 mcg/ml injection solution 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

$7.00

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.

$8.75

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.

$0.63 with UPMC Health Plan vs $7.04 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
UPMC Health Plan Managed Medicaid $0.63 ↓ -91%
AmeriHealth Caritas Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid $1.00 ↓ -86%
Geisinger Medicaid/CHIP $1.00 ↓ -86%
PA Health & Wellness PA Medicaid HMO $1.00 ↓ -86%
Aetna of PA Medicare $1.02 ↓ -85%
UPMC Health Plan CHIP $1.67 ↓ -76%
Highmark BCBS of PA Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage $1.89 ↓ -73%
Cigna Commercial $2.46 ↓ -65%
UPMC Work Partners Workers Comp $3.01 ↓ -57%
United Healthcare Commercial $3.02 ↓ -57%
UPMC Health Plan Commercial $3.60 ↓ -49%
Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) Medicare $4.00 ↓ -43%
Multiplan PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) $6.00 ↓ -14%
Humana Commercial $6.40 ↓ -9%
National Provider Network PPO $7.04 ↑ +1%
Aetna Medicaid not published by hospital —

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Cyanocobalamin (vit b-12) 1,000 mcg/ml injection solution at other Pennsylvania hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
UPMC Altoona Altoona $4.80 $0.63 – $4.00
UPMC Bedford Everett $6.60 $0.63 – $7.20
UPMC Carlisle Carlisle $3.60 $0.14 – $2.03
UPMC Cole Coudersport $13.80 $1.00 – $4.00
UPMC Community Osteopathic Harrisburg $3.60 $0.20 – $3.10
UPMC East Monroeville $11.00 $0.63 – $10.40
UPMC Hamot Erie $101.60 $0.63 – $3.93
UPMC Northwest Seneca $7.40 $0.63 – $4.82

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